5 ms·
I used to recommend Gandi, now I recommend NOT using it. The "no BS" sounds good but they do the same marketing BS as any others, and some times worse: - How t
by franciscop 4y ago
I used to recommend Gandi, now I recommend NOT using it. The "no BS" sounds good but they do the same marketing BS as any others, and some times worse:
- How to delete a domain? Well, you cannot. You are supposed to let it expire, so you get ransaked by all the emails reminding you to renew a domain (a HIGH alert notification by nature which you should never ignore) but now you have to double/triple check every time to make sure it was about a domain you "WANT" to expire. Congrats, you mixed the highest priority emails with the lowest priority ones and trained people to ignore them.
- When buying a domain there's some extra services Heissenberged into your Cart. To be fair, they appear in your cart but I'm not sure if they are added or not, since there's a check and a X next to them, so just in case you have to manually remove the extra BS they (maybe) "add" to your cart.
This is prob no BS but Gandi is a domain registrar, when I log in it takes me to a page full of internal ads (a useless "Dashboard") instead of the domain screen. Please, just take me to my domains, that's like your whole thing.
- edp 4y agoI've been using Gandi for years and I'm looking for a new registrar. Which one(s) are you recommending ?
- Tarq0n 4y agoPorkbun has been good for me, just a couple domains though.
- sondr3 4y agoI've moved a few of my domains from Gandi to Cloudflare, though their selection of available TLDs is somewhat limited and until recently you couldn't register domains directly. I was considering moving back to Gandi from Cloudflare, but looks like I'll have to look around... again.
- slig 4y agoMe too. Moved everything to Namesilo and it just works. Now, if one wants Full Blown BS, they should choose Namecheap [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
- mikro2nd 4y agoAs a long time customer of Gandi, I've never seen "extra services Heissenberged into [my] cart" when buying domains from them. Would be an instant red-flag, but here we are...
- franciscop 4y agoOkay they have changed the wording a bit and now it's a bit more clear that hosting was not actually added to my cart, that it's a discount that I can remove for Hosting and not actual hosting (why is a discount even added to my cart though?). It used to be a bit more unclear, and the "trash" icon besides the "X" icon is also pretty weirdly placed IMHO, but yeah at least the wording is slightly better now: "Your first yearly web hosting subscription is 50% off. This offer cannot be applied to your shopping cart" (then why did you add it???). https://imgur.com/a/u7Kjgj7 https://imgur.com/a/u7Kjgj7
- khobragade 4y ago> you get ransaked by all the emails reminding you to renew a domain Just saw the 'Let a domain lapse' section in the domain overview. It'll stop all non-mandatory reminders of the domain's end-of-life cycle, as they say.
- franciscop 4y agoThere's no mention of that at all in the "How can I delete a domain?" section though. Guess what normal people (like me) google when they want to remove an domain? "Delete domain gandi" or "Remove domain gandi", which ends you up here: https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/faq/deletion.html https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/faq/deletion.html
- khobragade 4y agoOh yeah, they're way behind on that! It took them this long just to acknowledge the new email plans on the website I don't even care any more.