[dangrossman]

I would never register a domain name with Gandi. They essentially reserve the right to terminate your service if anything on your site is morally upsetting to them. Given most registrars have no policies about what you host on your domain except that they'll comply with court orders, why would you give the right to police the content of your site to Gandi?

Given almost every site has some kind of UCG -- forums, comments, reviews -- it's impossible to guarantee compliance with Gandi's service agreement. Hacker News could not be hosted on their service given the content of some of the discussions here.

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> You acknowledge and accept that, in accordance with Our Ethics the use of any of Gandi services associated to Your Gandi Account:

> * it is expressly forbidden for use in any way that engages or participates in practices that are deviant, abusive, illegal, or prejudicial; and

> * must be appropriate to the age and sensibility of each of the persons that any of the Content is destined for, directly or indirectly, published or made available to via the technical solutions used

> ...

> You acknowledge that the following elements are considered as constituting material breaches of Your contractual obligations:

> * if We are made aware of, or discover that You provide, or are engaged in, in any way, directly or indirectly, through Our services:

> * any provocation or encouragement to commit crimes or offenses, and particularly crimes against humanity or encouragement of racial hatred;

> * activity or Content of racist, xenophobic, or negative character;

> * activity or Content of pedophile character, or that is liable to constitute or be associated with, either directly or indirectly to it;

> * child pornography, or the trivialization of such acts or encouragement of violence, suicide, or the use, production, or distribution of illegal substances, or acts of terrorism;

[cdvonstinkpot]

I love Gandi, but now I'm not an ethical edge case, either. They provide everything I need, at a more than fair price.

However-

I do use 97Cents.net for early stage projects where there isn't production traffic involved. Gandi simple hosting product works well, too. I haven't had the chance to test it w/ significant traffic tho.

[soulshake]

Hi, AJ from Gandi here. To my knowledge, we don't shut down anything unless we are required to by law or there's spamming involved.

[dangrossman]

Would you buy a car from a dealer that required you to sign a contract stating they could take your car back if you carry a passenger who says something racist? Would you do so even if they promise they don't enforce that clause, when there's ten other dealers in your town that don't make you sign anything like that?

[soulshake]

[Speaking for myself, not Gandi, and IANAL] To answer your question, I'd probably read the contracts of the other dealers, find their clause saying they reserve the right to take the car back for whatever reason they damn well please, sigh in helpless frustration at the state of contract law, and make my decision based on all available factors, including the actual experience of other people who purchased cars from that dealer.