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by fletchowns
5282 days ago
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It's $8/yr til the end of 2011. I recently asked them why they charge more than competitors for, this was the response: Thank you for contacting Gandi Customer Care. It is true, Gandi does charge slightly more for
domains than some other registrars. We do feel that we are still affordable, however. The
reason we need to charge a small premium is that we have a different business model than
other, larger companies, and cannot get by on razor-thin margins. We are a commercial
organization, certainly, and we do make money, but we also support the community of
innovators in the hosting and domain name management space, and we do not advertise, but
rely on word of mouth for our marketing. We do not buy market share with ads, and we do
not make empty promises to capture customers.
We also include some services (such as a free year of SSL certificates and the ability to
obfuscate your whois data) that other registrars tend to charge incrementally for. This is
because we believe that your data is yours. We will never sell your private information as
some others do, and so we do not have that revenue stream. We appreciate your willingness to consider Gandi as an ethical, no-bullshit alternative to
GoDaddy. Right now a lot of domains are available at $8/yr through the end of 2011. We
hope you will join us. |
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