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I 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

• keehun 1y ago
  What 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?
  • Forbo 1y ago
    One could argue the polish of their UI/UX is worth it, but not to me. I moved to Porkbun and found the difference a bit frustrating when trying to migrate from Gandi, but that was one time pain.
    • atkailash 1y ago
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• tobltobs 1y ago
  I 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 ago
    To 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.
    • maeln 1y ago
      And their mailbox offering is also overpriced. 5.99€/month (and it use to be pricier! they recently decreased the price) for 10Go and very basic email features. Fastmail is 5€ for 60Go, masked email, and a few other things (not in the EU tho).
      • genewitch 1y ago
        I used to pay $5/yr for fastmail but that plan is now $15/yr, but I only get 0.5GB of storage. So it's like $1.05/month!
        • kemotep 1y ago
          I pay $5 a month (50 a year technically) for fastmail and get a 50 gb mailbox and 10 gb cloud storage. How old is your account?
          • genewitch 1y ago
            at least 10 years or so, i think. I'm grandfathered in to the real cheap plan, even though it "tripled" in price in 2020 or so. I can only have one domain, but i get all the other features.
  • sombragris 1y ago
    I am transferring all my domains away from them. This is too much of a hike.
    • rom16384 1y ago
      What registar do you recommend? I used Gandi because it was a no-nonsense registar, even if a bit more expensive.
      • homebrewer 1y ago
        Cloudflare sells domains at cost, if you can stomach them.
        • arcanemachiner 1y ago
          Porkbun is cheap as well, and has the bonus feature of not being Cloudflare.
          • homebrewer 1y ago
            They use cloudflare for DNS, so you'll have to provide your own DNS servers or buy them from somebody else.
            • arcanemachiner 1y ago
              interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
      • pengaru 1y ago
        I've been happy with https://www.dynadot.com/ https://www.dynadot.com/ lately
      • sombragris 1y ago
        I'm using now a Tucows reseller via eNom.com. So far, it's good although it does not accept my preferred credit card; I had to resort to my debit card for payment (same operator, same issuer bank; go figure). Gandi did not have that kind of issues but then, a 300% price hike certainly made me run from them.
• a2tech 1y ago
  Their web interface is extremely unreliable. Pretty much every time I need to renew or checkout, the web site doesn't work. I have to try over multiple days before I get through the process fully. If you try to contact support, it'll take a few days and you get the worst kind of form responses. This has reminded me to start migrating domains away, so the timing is good.
• ademarre 1y ago
  Gandi was sold to a private equity firm in a leveraged buyout in 2019 [0,1]. Nothing good has happened with Gandi since. [0] https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/montefiore-investment-acquires-gandi-net--6d5453d1 https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/montefiore-investment... [1] https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/02/futureofgandi-the-adventure-continues/ https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/02/futureofgandi-the-adventur...