Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

[thegeekpirate]

https://tld-list.com is the the place to go when needing a domain (although it seems they're having some site issues at the moment).

[workfromspace]

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]

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]

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.

[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/

[sampullman]

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

[whoisyc]

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]

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]

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]

Just transferred away the other day.

[kettleballroll]

What alternative can you recommend?

[kgwxd]

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?

[WhitneyLand]

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]

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

[intended]

You aren’t alone.

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

[latchkey]

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