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Does 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.
by jsheard 2y ago
Does 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 2y agoJust transferred away the other day.
- sampullman 2y agoThere aren't many registrars that support one of the TLDs I use, but I've moved everything else.
- kettleballroll 2y agoWhat alternative can you recommend?
- gpjt 2y agoAnother one leaving for Porkbun here.
- SG- 2y agohttps://porkbun.com https://porkbun.com
- jsheard 2y 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 2y agoNamecheap are reliable and well-priced
- someotherperson 2y agoBut their ethics are rock bottom. So maybe use of the many competitors mentioned here instead of giving money to this outfit.
- sillysaurusx 2y agoAny proof? Or… anything?
- nicoburns 2y agoDo you have more information on this? First I've heard of this.
- someotherperson 2y 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 2y agoI've been using Tucows/Hover since forever. never even a single problem
- Sanzig 2y 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 2y agoinfomaniak: swiss & cheap
- srhngpr 2y 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 2y agonearlyfreespeech.net
- kgwxd 2y 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 2y agoCloudflare (at cost), or porkbun
- noinsight 2y 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 2y agoOVH is pretty fairly priced, includes the DNS zones, and is EU based
- avsm 2y 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 2y 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 2y 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 2y 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 2y 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 2y ago[dead]
- urtrs 2y 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 2y ago[dead]
- paulv 2y 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 2y 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 2y 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...