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The .com purist advice is sound but you're not getting four-letter domain names that way, and in some ccTLD zones you can still. I was price-gouged out of owni

by tucnak 8mo ago

The .com purist advice is sound but you're not getting four-letter domain names that way, and in some ccTLD zones you can still. I was price-gouged out of owning a single, rare .icu domain when renewal fee for it went from 20 usd to 220 usd overnight, just for this one domain... I'm pretty sure it's not Gandi, but the TLD opetator, because other .icu domains I've had were fine. I decided to eventually abandon them all anyway. Moved away from Gandi later when they started doing gouging of their own, too. What is HN's opinion on Dynadot?

palad1n 8mo ago
Yeah, what the heck happened to Gandi? It used to be my go-to, but nowadays... yikes!
- timpera 8mo ago
  They got sold to private equity, unfortunately. I switched to Bookmyname (by Scaleway) for some TLDs, and Infomaniak for others.
  - aitchnyu 8mo ago
    Can we trust Cloud registrars like Bookmyname/Scaleway, Amazon Route 53, Cloudflare more than Namecheap, Gandi and co?
    - timpera 8mo ago
      I think that it's a good thing when domains aren't their main source of income. It gives them more incentive to provide good, stable experience and pricing.
    - Macha 8mo ago
      More than what Gandi was? No. More than what Gandi is now? 100%
  - Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago
    Wait, If I remember correctly, I think its possible to now buy domains from scaleway directly within their interface https://www.scaleway.com/en/domain-names/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/domain-names/ Could be very interesting for the people who love/host on scaleway. Scaleway is a good company fwiw imo.
- Citizen_Lame 8mo ago
  Private equity cancer, same as Namecheap.
  - anilakar 8mo ago
    Reddit's r/namecheap is also full of horror stories.