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Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem
- jsheard 1y agoDoes anyone here even use Gandi anymore since they got acquired and hiked their prices to the moon? They want $40/year for a .com now, it's absurd.
- shinryuu 1y agoJust transferred away the other day.
- sampullman 1y agoThere aren't many registrars that support one of the TLDs I use, but I've moved everything else.
- kettleballroll 1y agoWhat alternative can you recommend?
- gpjt 1y agoAnother one leaving for Porkbun here.
- SG- 1y agohttps://porkbun.com https://porkbun.com
- jsheard 1y agoPorkbun is a solid all-rounder. Cloudflare sells domains at cost so they're slightly cheaper than Porkbun, but the catch is that you're forced to use CFs nameservers so YMMV depending on whether you want that flexibility.
- nicoburns 1y agoNamecheap are reliable and well-priced
- someotherperson 1y agoBut their ethics are rock bottom. So maybe use of the many competitors mentioned here instead of giving money to this outfit.
- sillysaurusx 1y agoAny proof? Or… anything?
- nicoburns 1y agoDo you have more information on this? First I've heard of this.
- someotherperson 1y agoIt's been going on for years. I've personally tried to report phishing scams to Namecheap and get the laziest action on it (for example, I report 30 domains, and only one gets taken down and the rest + the account stay active) or totally ignored altogether after one or two exchanges. This laziness in response despite their platform being abused this heavily suggests they don't want to give up the revenue they're getting from it. The CEO is incredibly defensive about it and suggests that the security theater is evidence that they actually want to do something, but it's been years and they're still heavily used. This is despite not being the cheapest out there, which suggests that scammers prefer it for other reasons. https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/1duy4cn/constant_spams_and_phishing_emails_from_namecheap/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/1duy4cn/constant... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603615 https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/why-do-scammers-love-namecheap/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/why-do-scammers-love-namech... And last but not least: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/ncsc_active_cyber_defence_report https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/ncsc_active_cyber_def...
- VWWHFSfQ 1y agoI've been using Tucows/Hover since forever. never even a single problem
- Sanzig 1y agoFor Canadians trying to avoid US registrars - grape.ca. They've been in business since '99, I think they were one of the first CIRA accredited registrars for .ca domains.
- Faaak 1y agoinfomaniak: swiss & cheap
- srhngpr 1y agoPiggybacking on this comment, what about alternatives for good/basic shared hosting? (i.e., PHP, MySQL, etc.) I've got a few WP sites that I maintain where I need keep something reliable, secure/trusted, and relatively low-cost.
- pinebox 1y agonearlyfreespeech.net
- kgwxd 1y agoI was just about to grab a few domains so, of course, my previous go-to has since turned to poop. Are there any good registrars left and, if so, who?
- internetter 1y agoCloudflare (at cost), or porkbun
- noinsight 1y agoAmazon/AWS Registrar. They're a reseller for Gandi, but of course everything is managed through AWS and the pricing is at-cost instead of the rip-off that Gandi is now.
- wyan 1y agoOVH is pretty fairly priced, includes the DNS zones, and is EU based
- avsm 1y agoI use Gandi for dozens of domains. This incident aside, they've been reliable and undramatic, and I don't mind paying a small premium for something as important as DNS. Has anyone else been impacted by the sale of Gandi to Your.Online [1]? I hadn't even noticed this until the post above, but it at least looks like the acquirer is still a European company. [1] https://your.online/press-release/ https://your.online/press-release/
- keehun 1y agoWhat does Gandi provide wrt DNS that is worth a premium? What do they offer that at-cost domain registrations & free DNS management from Cloudflare do not?
- tobltobs 1y agoI wouldn't mind a "small premium", but 300% price increase is robbery. Can't imagine that this kind of greed doesn't affect their quality of service.
- jsheard 1y agoTo add insult to injury they also killed the free mailboxes they used to bundle with domains as standard, so customers who used that feature had to start paying a huge premium for the domain itself and pay even more on top of that to retain access to their email.
- ziml77 1y agoIs price the only negative about them? I know the sentiment around Gandi here is negative, but the one time I needed to handle a domain issue recently they were super quick on the support. The problem was even my fault for messing up the ID info I'd provided (requirement of the registry for that TLD), but they got me back up and running 20 minutes after I sent their legal team the corrected info.
- sieabahlpark 1y ago[dead]
- urtrs 1y agoI asked for the authorization code to transfer my domain as it would not appear anywhere. They replied after 10 days. Also the code was wrong.
- atkailash 1y ago[dead]
- paulv 1y agoWe use them for a few dozen domains. DNS only, though, and they are all set to auto-renew. I basically only have to interact with them when we need to make DNS changes. The web UI seems fine, especially in the advanced view, but our biggest zones are managed through opentofu, so I can see how changing a large zone would be frustrating.
- insane_dreamer 1y agoUsed them for years with zero issues--I'm happy with the stability (though I wasn't aware they'd been bought out or raised their prices).
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- whoisyc 1y agoA quick whois lookup of ycombinator.com returned the following: Domain Name: YCOMBINATOR.COM Registry Domain ID: 147225527_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.gandi.net Registrar URL: http://www.gandi.net Updated Date: 2025-02-14T02:53:36Z Creation Date: 2005-03-20T23:51:07Z But yes, I would not use Gandi in 2025, unless someone is pointing a gun at my head and making me choose between Gandi and GoDaddy...
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- intended 1y agoYou aren’t alone. Edit: THought it was Dandi March, a famous civil disobedience movement by Gandhi.
- WhitneyLand 1y agoWell, they’re French. Was it an accident? It’s a matter of taste I guess, but if it was realized the acronym for my company was one letter off from one of the most iconic civil rights leaders of the 20th century, I’d probably prefer not to play off the edge of the name being highly recognizable.
- qntty 1y agoIn Hindi, “gandi” means dirty, which I guess is appropriate for marches
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- thegeekpirate 1y agohttps://tld-list.com https://tld-list.com is the the place to go when needing a domain (although it seems they're having some site issues at the moment).
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- workfromspace 1y agoThe last good thing Gandi did for me is to convince (more like force) me to migrate to Fastmail. I wish I've done that before.
- latchkey 1y agoSwitching to ceph probably isn't the flex they think it is.