workfromspace 2 months ago

The 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.

jsheard 2 months 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.

  • ziml77 2 months ago

    Is 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.

    • urtrs 2 months ago

      I 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.

  • avsm 2 months ago

    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 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/

    • tobltobs 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

        I am transferring all my domains away from them. This is too much of a hike.

        • rom16384 2 months ago

          What registar do you recommend? I used Gandi because it was a no-nonsense registar, even if a bit more expensive.

          • sombragris 2 months 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.

          • homebrewer 2 months ago

            Cloudflare sells domains at cost, if you can stomach them.

            • arcanemachiner 2 months ago

              Porkbun is cheap as well, and has the bonus feature of not being Cloudflare.

              • homebrewer 2 months ago

                They use cloudflare for DNS, so you'll have to provide your own DNS servers or buy them from somebody else.

    • a2tech 2 months 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.

    • keehun 2 months 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 2 months 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.

  • sampullman 2 months ago

    There aren't many registrars that support one of the TLDs I use, but I've moved everything else.

  • whoisyc 2 months ago

    A 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...
  • paulv 2 months ago

    We 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 2 months ago

    Used 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).

  • shinryuu 2 months ago

    Just transferred away the other day.

  • kettleballroll 2 months ago

    What alternative can you recommend?

    • jsheard 2 months ago

      Porkbun 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.

    • Sanzig 2 months ago

      For 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.

    • VWWHFSfQ 2 months ago

      I've been using Tucows/Hover since forever. never even a single problem

    • nicoburns 2 months ago

      Namecheap are reliable and well-priced

    • srhngpr 2 months ago

      Piggybacking 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 2 months ago

        nearlyfreespeech.net

    • Faaak 2 months ago

      infomaniak: swiss & cheap

    • gpjt 2 months ago

      Another one leaving for Porkbun here.

  • kgwxd 2 months ago

    I 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?

    • noinsight 2 months ago

      Amazon/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.

    • internetter 2 months ago

      Cloudflare (at cost), or porkbun

    • wyan 2 months ago

      OVH is pretty fairly priced, includes the DNS zones, and is EU based

ta8903 2 months ago

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  • WhitneyLand 2 months ago

    Well, 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 2 months ago

    In Hindi, “gandi” means dirty, which I guess is appropriate for marches

  • intended 2 months ago

    You aren’t alone.

    Edit: THought it was Dandi March, a famous civil disobedience movement by Gandhi.

latchkey 2 months ago

Switching to ceph probably isn't the flex they think it is.