[avsm]

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/

[ademarre]

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...

[1] https://news.gandi.net/en/2019/02/futureofgandi-the-adventur...

[tobltobs]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[rom16384]

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

[pengaru]

I've been happy with https://www.dynadot.com/ lately

[sombragris]

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]

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

[arcanemachiner]

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

[homebrewer]

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

[a2tech]

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]

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]

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.