Gandi.net
Offering an alternative to Internet users, defending the privacy of its customers, supporting open source projects is part of the DNA of the company, which is displayed as "No Bullshit" and free from traditional codes and methods.
Cost / License
- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Features
- Two-factor Authentication
- Domain registration
- SSL
Tags
- email-hosting
- Security & Privacy
- websites
- whois
- DNS Service
- domains
- domain-name
- domain-search
- domain-names
Gandi.net News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Gandi.net
Gandi to end free GandiMail service and introduce new pricing policyGandi.net, the domain name registrar and web hosting provider founded in 2000, has announced that i...
Recent activities
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Gandi is a domain registrar with good reputation. Their interface & DNS are fast, responsive, and easy to use.
But Gandi has been acquired by a private equity firm in 2019, and later sold to Total Webhosting Solutions. Since then, they've cut the 2 free mailboxes. I've also noticed the steady price hikes in recent years.
Now, the cost for "big 3" TLD domains (.com .net and .org) have just been quietly bumped up from $29 to $39/yr. That's more than double the price of other registrars, and...
- reviewed Gandi.net
everything good except expensive. accepts crypto as payment
What is Gandi.net?
GANDI.net was one of the first domain name registrars approved by ICANN for .COM, .NET,.ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, .NAME, .BE, .FR, .EU domains in France. It now offers over 100 domain extensions and continues to add to this list on a regular basis. Gandi considers itself to be an ethical domain name registrar in an industry that has some 'grey' practices. It values the customers rights and privacy above all else and seeks to defend these wherever possible.
Gandi now offers a catalog of 750 extensions to individuals, small businesses and large accounts. Available on 3 continents with over 140 employees in Paris, Luxembourg, Munich, San Francisco and Taipei. The company manages more than 2.5M domain names, 200,000 websites and applications and over 55,000 SSL certificates for nearly 350,000 customers.
Gandi.net information
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One time purchase that costs $0, and / or subscription that costs $0 per month.Alternatives
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Comments and Reviews
Been with Gandi about 2 years now for domain name hosting and email and haven't had any issues. I love their ethos no bulls**t which they seem to live up to.
everything good except expensive. accepts crypto as payment
Gandi is a domain registrar with good reputation. Their interface & DNS are fast, responsive, and easy to use.
But Gandi has been acquired by a private equity firm in 2019, and later sold to Total Webhosting Solutions. Since then, they've cut the 2 free mailboxes. I've also noticed the steady price hikes in recent years.
Now, the cost for "big 3" TLD domains (.com .net and .org) have just been quietly bumped up from $29 to $39/yr. That's more than double the price of other registrars, and that's not counting the discount ones that sell at cost.
Gandi used to be proud of how they don't push upsells, sneak in unwanted services, or selling what should've been included. Gandi famously opposed registrars like GoDaddy for utilizing those "bullshit" practices, but with Gandi prices now sky-high, the final price I pay at Gandi aren't that different from those competitors who use underhanded tactics to sneakily make people pay more than they should.
I'm not sure how long the "no bullshit" promise will last. There will come a point where they can't increase prices any higher (everyone would leave Gandi if it's $100 for a domain), and they'd have to push you pay for additional services if they want to continue on this trajectory.
Unfortunately it seems like there's no one who "took their torch" All other registrars have a combination of bad reputation, shutting people down randomly or due to political disagreements, or operate a domain auction/marketplace.
Very cheap, includes free email inbox, is committed to and supports open source software, digital freedom and privacy.
Was with Go Daddy for a long time, mostly because buy a domain, get to set up a free website page. Which was cool for a couple of the domains I purchased. Than the free website with domain purchase stopped.
Came across Gandi one day about a couple of years ago. They had the buy a domain get a free website page.
Purchased one domain and was able to setup a website page for free. Few months later, purchased another domain and and was able to setup a website page for free.
When it came time to renew the first domain for another year, I paid the one year fee... but come to find out the free website page was no longer available. To have a website to go with the domain, it will now cost so much per month (or yearly) to have a website to go with my domains.
Wish I would of known ahead of time that the free website was not available any more. I could of shopped around and look for a different website domain company.
They five you the possibility to tweak everything on your domain. No matter if MX, TXT, subdomains, or other DNS Settings, it's all up to you to create and change. Your in full control (beware)!
What do you mean by que? You can preconfigure DNS records which you can have go live when needed. I don't think there is an auto-que funktion though so you can have it set to a certain time.