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When migrating our company's 15 domains away from GoDaddy I evaluated around a dozen registrars. Our criteria may be different from yours. With millions of sub
by jbyers 15y ago
When migrating our company's 15 domains away from GoDaddy I evaluated around a dozen registrars. Our criteria may be different from yours. With millions of subdomains and tens of millions of user-generated pages, we needed a registar that would absolutely honor our rights as domain owners. This was our top priority. Our lowest priority was cost, though there was a reasonable upper bound on what we'd pay per year. Features are somewhere in the middle -- we didn't want or need lots of extras.
Our priorities were:
1. rights as domain owners
2. registar stability
3. control panel usability
4. extra features (DNS, etc.)
5. cost
The winner was Gandi. Their combination of common-sense, customer-friendly terms and European privacy laws made the choice easy.
Read your registrar's terms. See if you still want to save that $6 a year.
- arkitaip 15y agoAnd they keep your whois info private. http://www.gandibar.net/post/2008/07/08/Gandi-helps-guard-your-privacy http://www.gandibar.net/post/2008/07/08/Gandi-helps-guard-yo...
- amesign 15y agoExcept for your name. And their private whois is only available to individuals, not company accounts.
- rednaught 15y agoFYI, They are also now incorporated in the US and comply with the Safe Harbor Act.
- ngsayjoe 15y agoI used to use Gandi, but has since transferred all domains to Namecheap, becoz Gandi force you to use NIC handlers to login.
- andresmh 15y agowhy is that a problem? serious question
- tomstuart 15y agoSeconded. I've been a Gandi customer for 11 years and have never been less than delighted with the service they provide.
- sdfjkl 15y agoAnd you can't beat their slogan: "no bullshit™" (http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit)
- AdamN 15y agoAll my new domains are on Gandi. Another advantage is their broad selection of TLDs. Domain names are too valuable to nickel and dime.
- jotto 15y agoi dropped gandi this year because they emailed me asking for 1) copy of drivers license, 2) proof of residence, and the current drivers license address must match whatever your current address is. they gave me 1 week to comply or face deletion of account. they claimed it was a regular/random check, but offered no answer to my questions other than "you must provide". i immediately transferred to name.com because they have a telephone number and they answer it. gandi does NOT have a support phone number.