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Thursday 3 May 2012

Managing IaaS Cloud Hosting resources via API

By Thomas on Thursday 3 May 2012, 10:04 - Hosting

After the release of our Simple Hosting management API last month, in May we're adding an API to manage resources on our IaaS Cloud Hosting service.

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Friday 27 April 2012

Accented .FR domains

By Ryan on Friday 27 April 2012, 15:23

On May 3rd, some of you will be able to register the first .fr domain names with accents (as well as in other extensions managed by AFNIC). The large majority of others will be able to do so as of July 3rd. Why? Here are some more details...

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Monday 23 April 2012

Gandi Support for Code the Change

By Thomas on Monday 23 April 2012, 11:08 - General

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Are you a computer software professional who wishes their work had more meaning? Do you see all kinds of problems in society you wish you could use your skills to help correct? Well, check out Code the Change.

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Tuesday 17 April 2012

Gandi Stands in Opposition to CISPA

By Thomas on Tuesday 17 April 2012, 13:45 - Gandi

Some of you may have heard about the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Gandi took a position against this legislation for good reasons. The US Congress is once again considering acts that abrogate existing privacy law on the Internet, this time in the name of stopping cyber attacks. One particularly heinous act is called CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act.

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Thursday 12 April 2012

Simple Hosting API: Empowering Web Hosting Resellers

By Thomas on Thursday 12 April 2012, 04:58 - Hosting

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Yesterday we added Simple Hosting management features to our public Simple Hosting API. If you are a reseller of Gandi's Domain Name and Cloud Hosting services, these features beg the question of reselling Simple Hosting: Can you do it?

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Tuesday 10 April 2012

Gandi Spring Fashion! : 500 Free t-shirts via Twitter

By Thomas on Tuesday 10 April 2012, 01:19 - Gandi

Did you know Gandi doesn't advertise? We have no TV ads, magazine spreads, or radio spots. Our philosophy from the start has been that advertising is unnecessary, and that our customers good words are the only trustworthy way people should learn about us.

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Tuesday 20 March 2012

DNSSEC at Gandi (UPDATED)

By Thomas on Tuesday 20 March 2012, 11:06 - Internet

DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) is a way to secure a previously insecure protocol: DNS. The most technically adept among Gandi’s customer community have been asking for DNSSEC support for a long time, and now, we are pleased to say, it is available!

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Monday 19 March 2012

The Importance of Our Customers

By Thomas on Monday 19 March 2012, 20:37 - Gandi

Now that the redesign of our backend system is nearly complete, it's time to move on to the phase we've been internally calling Gandi V4. It will consist of an optimization of our website (for speed, usability, etc) and the introduction of Domain name and Web Hosting tools and web interfaces that some of you have been requesting for months, or even, in some cases, for years.

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И лове РФ

By Thomas on Monday 19 March 2012, 19:59 - Gandi

So, I've stumped you, right? Rest assured, I haven't been replaced by Olga the masseuse over vacation. It's just a quick introduction to the first TLD extension available at Gandi in IDN format, .RF (Russian Federation).

To find out what the title of this post means, read on.

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Wednesday 7 March 2012

Monitor Your Domain Name

By Thomas on Wednesday 7 March 2012, 22:41 - General

Why Monitor Your Domain Name?

A domain name is a distinctive mark, one that lets your customers, your suppliers, all of your contacts know who they are communicating with on the Internet. Depending on the popularity of your brand, your domain name may be subjected to counterfeiting or abuse, in the form of cybersquatting. This can damage or abuse your online identity, allowing others to masquerade as you, to their advantage.

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SSH Key Authentication Added to Gandi Cloud Hosting

By Thomas on Wednesday 7 March 2012, 21:53 - Hosting

In the last update of our cloud hosting platform , we added a small feature to that will appeal to some of you: SSH key authentication for Expert mode VPS servers.

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Friday 2 March 2012

On the Management and Coherence - of the Internet

By Stephan on Friday 2 March 2012, 16:51 - Internet

All of us here have seen this article, written by the head of EasyDNS, in which he gives his opinion as to the decision by Verisign, the operator of .com domains, to yield to the demand of the American judicial system.

The latter ordered them to forward two domain names to a page of their choice, specifically one that warns against online gaming and describes the legal actions taken by the authorities against the owners of those websites.

If I'm not mistaken, along with the MegaUpload affair, this is the second time that we have had to deal with this sort of thing.

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Monday 20 February 2012

Simple Hosting at One Month In

By Thomas on Monday 20 February 2012, 17:40 - Hosting

Our Simple Hosting has been available for a month now. This is our initial assessment, some feedback, and some links you may find useful.

Thursday 19 January 2012

Simple Hosting is live!

By Ryan on Thursday 19 January 2012, 10:15 - Gandi

After 4 months of beta testing, the Gandi team is proud to present our new hosting offer, now available to the general public. Simple Hosting has been designed to offer you the maximum possible flexibility and simplicity at a price that will allow everyone to use it.

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Monday 16 January 2012

The Evolution of Domain Names

By Thomas on Monday 16 January 2012, 17:08 - Internet

Here is a bit of context for Domain Names, where they have been, and where they are going, especially with the new gTLDs on the way.

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Friday 6 January 2012

New Domain Name and Email API

By Ryan on Friday 6 January 2012, 21:00 - Gandi

Those that have been following our blog closely are aware that we have been doing a complete overhaul of our domain name platform over the past year.
With this overhaul comes a new domain name and Email API, replacing that already available to resellers. As a special surprise, the new API will also be available for non-resellers too!.

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Monday 26 December 2011

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ

By Leland Vandervort on Monday 26 December 2011, 12:25 - General

As you may already know, ICANN, the regulatory authority for domain names, authorized the principal registries (.com, .net, .org ...) to increase their pricing in 2007. Of course, the registries were not slow to take advantage of the opportunity. A 7% increase in 2007, and a further 7% in 2008, was followed by yet another 7% increase in mid 2010. Now, Verisign will once again be increasing prices, theortically for the last time, on 15 January 2012 by a further 7%. This makes for a total real increase of 31%, which, given the margins on the product is an enormous pill to swallow. Here is what we will do for you...

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Friday 23 December 2011

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation

By Thomas on Friday 23 December 2011, 08:02 - Gandi US

Several of our customers have asked us what our official position is in regard to the controversial SOPA legislation. We oppose it. These are our reasons.

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Friday 16 December 2011

The United States Congress is Set to Enable Internet Censorship Tools

By Thomas on Friday 16 December 2011, 16:01 - Internet

The US Congress is pushing through a controversial set of bills to protect copyrighted material from piracy, but that also threaten innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet.

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Thursday 15 December 2011

Gandi is moving!

By Ryan on Thursday 15 December 2011, 14:45 - Gandi

Gandi is moving it's French headquarters to a larger and more modern location in Paris this week.

Friday 2 December 2011

Gandi Pricing Compared to Amazon EC2

By Thomas on Friday 2 December 2011, 12:20 - GandiBlog

Wondering how Gandi's prices for hosted Linux compare to others in the industry? We were too, so we looked. This post is a “no bullshit” approach to comparing the prices of similar configurations at Amazon EC2 and Gandi.

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Friday 25 November 2011

XXX almost live!

By Ryan on Friday 25 November 2011, 17:01 - Internet

The new XXX extension that is dedicated to the adult entertainment industry will be officially open to the public on December 6th, 2011.

Thursday 17 November 2011

.FR domains available to Europe

By Ryan on Thursday 17 November 2011, 17:39 - Internet

The registry in charge of .fr domain names, AFNIC, will soon be changing many of their rules, as well as taking over the management of several other French extensions.

Friday 28 October 2011

.XXX end of the Sunrise period

By Ryan on Friday 28 October 2011, 17:49

The first phase, called the Sunrise, that was designed to let you protect your domain name in the .XXX extension and that was expected to end today on the 28th of October at 16:00 GMT has been extended until Monday, October 31st at 15:00 GMT. I'll take this opportunity to let you know what will happen next:

Friday 21 October 2011

What about our IaaS hosting?

By Ryan on Friday 21 October 2011, 14:34 - Hosting

Since the launch of our Simple Hosting service in beta testing, many of you have asked us when we will implement the improvements that we have been promising to make on our IaaS servers.

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