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They were sold to another company a year or two ago and now some people are a bit wary
by jarofgreen 2y ago
They were sold to another company a year or two ago and now some people are a bit wary
- NetOpWibby 2y agoI've noticed that Gandi has become SUPER expensive as opposed to Hover lately as well. I'm just letting domains expire instead.
- input_sh 2y agoOne of my domains on Gandi was up for renewal. I've noticed they charged ~$140, while Namecheap charged ~$35. Easiest transfer decision I've ever made.
- em-bee 2y agowow that's 4 times as expensive!! seems like gandi didn't just multiply the prices but raised them exponentially. beware of namecheap though. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364240 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364240
- input_sh 2y agoI've read my fair share of Namecheap criticisms over the years and remain unconvinced. I point my nameservers somewhere else and then forget about Namecheap for a year.
- em-bee 2y agoi just moved all my domains off gandi because they doubled or tripled the renewal prices. i am guessing they are milking their existing customers who don't notice or don't have the knowhow or resources to move their domains, and once those wise up to that they will lose a lot of them apart from prices their operation didn't seem to change after the sale. although i only have a few domains so i probably didn't interact with them enough to notice anything else
- InsideOutSanta 2y agoDamn, that's good info. I have all my domains on Gandi and noticed the pricing changes, but I just stupidly assumed that it was something the registry operators were causing. Sucks to have to leave Gandi, their UX is great, no stupid upselling, very clear website.
- buro9 2y agoI've been doing this too, every time a renew comes around I shift it to Namecheap.