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I’ve always been a little confused about their cult following given their unfriendly terms — arbitrary domain cancellation based on adult material for example —
by vegannet 7y ago
I’ve always been a little confused about their cult following given their unfriendly terms — arbitrary domain cancellation based on adult material for example — which are fair terms to have if that’s their ethics but it seems at odds with the typical pro freedom expectations many people in technology hold.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 7y agoAny details on this? All I found while searching for this was Gandi explicitly advertising gTLDs designed for adult content... Do they have that in their terms? Independently of that, do they have a history of doing that?
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoThey put a rude word on their homepage, that makes them edgy and cool and anti-corporation!
- jrockway 7y ago"No bullshit" is up there on my corpro-speak charts right along with "synergy" and "innovation". Everyone's website says they're "no bullshit". It's all bullshit.
- M2Ys4U 7y ago"No bullshit" works when it's an SME talking, but once a company reaches a certain size then all bets are off
- chadcmulligan 7y agoWhen my daughter was in high school she was doing an IT subject, for fun I told her to try using "synergy" in one of her assignments. She got an A, its a magic word.
- pnako 7y agoIt was founded by pioneers of the Internet in France who where involved in non-profit/hacker/open source circles, which is where it got its cult following from. But at the end of the day it's a cheap provider with, ahem, French-style support so I'm not sure what people were expecting out of them.