Gandi
Wednesday 7 May 2008
700,000!
By Ryan on Wednesday 7 May 2008, 07:28
Today, we give you the possibility of winning 100 Gandi T-shirts (1 per person) to the 100 orders around 700,000 (from 699,950 to 700,050)
Once the 700,000 benchmark as been passed, we will contact you to see what size you would like.
The offer is limited to residents in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Italy, and Spain.
Monday 5 May 2008
GandiFlex will revolutionize web host purchasing
By Ryan on Monday 5 May 2008, 13:15
We have been alluding to this option since the beginning of our hosting service, and we are particularly proud of it quite simply because it is a tool that we would like to have seen at one of our competitors...
To make a metaphor (I like metaphors), imagine that you drive to work every day, say, 50 miles round-trip each day, from Monday to Friday. You have a small, fuel-efficient, 2-door car, with a small trunk that is just enough for your daily needs. The problem is that on the weekends with the wife and kids, it is just too small for a comfortable family trip... Your only real choice is therefore to purchase a bigger car : a 4-door gas-guzzler with a huge trunk and one that is therefore more expensive. Or even, in the worst-case scenario, you would need to purchase two new cars...
Well, at Gandi, we just invented modular back-seats and an optional additional trunk! Ah...no, wait. Actually, as we do not yet manufacture cars, we have applied this excellent idea to servers. And we must say that this is far easier than with cars 
Therefore, concretely, this means that with GandiFlex, you may schedule in advance at what time during the day, the week, the month, or even the year, when you will need more power, more RAM, more of everything. Since our hosting system is based on server-shares, we provide you with the possibility of adding from 1 to 7 to your server depending on the program of your choice. You will notice that we have initially limited the Gandi Flex service to 8 shares. This is because we so not yet know how such as service will be used by you, though mainly because for now, the number of servers with more than 8 shares totals only 0.1% of our supply. Here are a few examples that do not allude to cars that will help you see how it works (note: all prices below are excl. VAT):
You manage a news website, and you have a daily newsletter that you send out at around 4 PM. Set up a repeating weekly GandiFlex program from 4 PM to 5 PM from Monday through Friday to increase your server's power during that period and forget about it. Your mails will be sent faster, without disrupting access to your website. How much will this cost you? 1 Flex-share costs €0.07 per hour ($0.1 or £0.6). In the case of this example, you will only pay an additional €1.40 per month
Another example, demanding more power: you created a guild of online gamers, and your team holds training matches every Friday and Saturday on your virtual dedicated server. You therefore need more resources to use your gaming server, in addition to your website, your forum, and TeamSpeak... You decide to program a schedule that will add 2 Flex-shares every Friday and Saturday from 9 PM to midnight: 2 Flex-shares (€0.14) X 3 hours X 2 days = €0.84 per week, or €3.36 per month!
Obviously, the addition or the removal of a share will not require a reboot of your server. In the two previous examples, in order to assure an optimal rendering, you would have needed to purchase more shares all the time, or in the case of a dedicated server, have a machine configured from the start for peak consumption. It would not be very environmentally friendly, like using a huge SUV to drive to work by yourself everyday.
Here is another illustration of use, depending on the peaks encountered in the load on your server. This one is running on 2 server-shares, though has a clearly identified need from 6 PM to 8 PM daily. This need may be estimated at 4 shares for two hours. Starting from the final price of a share at Gandi (10 euros) this user would need (without GandiFlex) to pay €60 per month to assure an optimal service for his or her server (6 shares X €10). With Gandi Flex, it is a simple matter to only use the strict minimum daily need, 2 server-shares (eg. €30 per month) for two hours - in other words €0.56 per day, or an additional €16.80 per month. This translated to a total of €36.80 per month! A monthly savings of €23.20 by just using what is needed is nothing to sniff at eh?

All of this is now available at Gandi! You just need to log into your account, and go to your server's control panel, and from there, by clicking on "Change" after "Flex operations active".
And tomorrow? Imagine that you are driving along the highway and come across 3 hitchhiking friends that you pick up. How are you going to pick up the 4 Norwegians sticking out their thumbs 2 miles further up the road? We have a solution to this, and will soon tell you all about it 
Friday 18 April 2008
What's up, week 16
By Elliott on Friday 18 April 2008, 15:24
As we continue to hurtle towards Hosting's final release, here are Gandi's latest building blocks - courtesy of our dear developers.
Friday 4 April 2008
What's up, week 14
By Elliott on Friday 4 April 2008, 17:43
Monday 31 March 2008
Gandi Webmail improvements
By Elliott on Monday 31 March 2008, 16:09
Wednesday 26 March 2008
.ASIA Launch
By Elliott on Wednesday 26 March 2008, 11:05
The .ASIA for all!
The TLD is normally reserved for individuals and corporate bodies who can justify a contact in the Asia geographic zone (from Turkey to the Pacific). This contact (CED) can be one of the 4 contacts linked to your domain (Owner, Admin, Billing or Technical), and you will then need to provide identification information for this person (passport number) or body (company number). Important point: if you cannot justify a CED contact yourself, Gandi, who possesses an Australian subsidiary, will be able to assume a technical contact position with the Registry for no extra charge.
Now accepting orders
As always, we do not like pre-booking systems by which companies promise that you will definitely get the domain you want by paying more money, and therefore we did not participate in the auctioning system or in any anticipated booking.
You can start placing your orders right away, bearing in mind you will need to manually check whether the domain was reserved during the Sunrise period. If your order fails, we will of course reimburse you fully.
The TLDs specificities are available here:
http://www.gandi.net/domaine/asia/info
The TLD is sold for $25.00 excl VAT as an A rate. The full grid is available here:
http://www.gandi.net/domaine/prix/detail/asia/
Thursday 6 March 2008
Website maintenance
By Ryan on Thursday 6 March 2008, 15:28
Please accept our apologies for this temporary inconvenience, and know that we are doing everything possible to assure that you can resume your operations as soon as possible.
Tuesday 4 March 2008
Time lags on Gandi Mail yesterday, explanations
By Ryan on Tuesday 4 March 2008, 15:07
The problem is mainly due to an abnormally significant load on our mail servers. On 'normal' days, we already manage more than 10 million e-mails (80% or 90% being spam). Delivering top-quality service is an every day struggle which should be made transparent to you. Yesterday was clearly a failure. We could have silenced it and looked the other way, but that doesn't correspond to our aims and to who we are. As always, we prefer to be totally transparent, to confirm that the problem has been identified and that we are working on it fully.
Our platform will therefore be modified in upcoming weeks to give you more comfort in your mail management. Until then - and starting from now - we are going to add machines and change some settings so as to ensure less delays when we experience spamming of several hundreds of thousands of e-mails.
Finally, just a word of advice for those of you who are still on the old mail platform and the old DNS (full1.gandi.net or ns7.gandi.net): I strongly recommend that you migrate to the new DNS and to Gandi Mail, which globally works better. To do so, all you need to do is click the 'Manage' link in the mail section of your domain management interface and follow the procedure.
As explained, maintaining an excellent quality of products and services is a priority, and this is adequately reflected in our timetable.
Thursday 7 February 2008
Friendly reminder on how to renew your hosting account
By Ryan on Thursday 7 February 2008, 15:28
Tuesday 5 February 2008
What's up - Week 6
By Nicolas on Tuesday 5 February 2008, 13:50
WARNING! "Domain Registry of America" (DROA) - "Domain Registry Services"
By Nicolas on Tuesday 5 February 2008, 13:49
We have already spoken of this, though it is still happenning with DROA, and others are joining in as well. Just like "Domain Registry Services", which is in no way affiliated with Gandi.net.
If you receive a mail claiming to be a renewal form from Domain Registry of America do not act on it!. We are not in any way affiliated with these companies. Your domain cannot be registered with them as they are not a ICANN-accredited registrars, nor Gandi resellers.
If you have not transferred it already, your domain name is safely at Gandi. You may verify this by looking it up in our whois search engine. Look at the "Registrar" and "Expires" lines.
All that concerns renewal and/or contact information updates will be conducted exclusively by Gandi.
If you have received such a letter, and would like for us to archive it, and so that we can add it to a possible future action against the practices of these companies, please feel free to fax us a copy of it at +33.1.43.73.18.51.
Please note that permanent security of your general top level domain is available by locking it against transfers, and that our customer service department is available to help you if you have the slightest question.
Thursday 31 January 2008
Blog Maintenance from 4pm to 5pm
By Arti on Thursday 31 January 2008, 15:47
Friday 18 January 2008
Here's what we're up to at Gandi
By Ryan on Friday 18 January 2008, 16:22
Monday 7 January 2008
Gandi Hosting in public beta is open!
By Ryan on Monday 7 January 2008, 14:20
Here we are: the moment that many of you have been waiting for, for days, weeks, or even months. Personally, I have been looking for to this for several years now, but then again I'm an incurable dreamer :D
You will discover a new navigation tab on our website that has been discretely highlighted (don't laugh...it's our version of publicity) so that you will not overlook it: Gandi hosting has been launched in public beta testing, we trust, to provide you with an even higher level of service.
Friday 28 December 2007
(6/6) Our hosting will be of high quality
By Ryan on Friday 28 December 2007, 19:14
Here we are ... almost at the beginning of the year 2008 and the start of a new adventure for us!
We have come to the end of this long series of teasers that, we hope, kept you waiting in expectation :D
Anyway, at the same time it was important that we hunted down all the bugs on our hosting platform, and so it was not a waste of your time...
Monday 10 December 2007
(4/6) Our hosting will be innovative
By Ryan on Monday 10 December 2007, 19:00
Having come from our previous experience in the area (we just popularized shared hosting via Multimania roughly 7 years ago), we wanted to build a product that would bring something truly new to the market. To do this, our way of proceeding was to ask ourselves, "what would I like to be able to do with this solution (and adding, 'that I cannot do elsewhere')"?...
Friday 30 November 2007
(3/6) Our hosting will be for everyone
By Ryan on Friday 30 November 2007, 16:23
There are some real neophytes among you and we are proud of it - as much as we are of having the more experienced people as well! :D
Monday 26 November 2007
(2/6) Our hosting will be flexible
By Ryan on Monday 26 November 2007, 11:28
Thursday 22 November 2007
(1/6) Launching of Gandi Hosting
By Ryan on Thursday 22 November 2007, 12:24
Wednesday 3 October 2007
Gandi Mail Launch!
By Ryan on Wednesday 3 October 2007, 17:43
Several improvements accompany this launch :
- Included in the purchase of your domain name, you now have 5 email addresses with 1GB of disk space divided as you wish amongst your different accounts.
- You can also now subscribe to Gandi Mail Pack which allows you to create up to 1,000 email accounts in connection with your domain. Pack rates start at €1 (VAT excluded). Payment is based upon the amount of disk space desired. No minimum engagement is required - you can cancel at any time, and be refunded for the time not used!
- new functions that will be available with the pack:
- the auto reply function: you have the possibility of having an automatic reply when you are gone
- the 'like' alias: a system that is unique to Gandi. This allows you to create dynamic aliases for your e-mail mailbox (for example, an alias 'begin with jo' will allow you to receive e-mails at jo@domain, jojo@domain, jonathan@domain, johnny.boy@domain, etc.)
- The installation of a sieve on the platform will allow us, in the coming weeks, to add the following functions:
- the possibility of changing one's password by webmail
- the possibility of managing the level of antispam of your e-mail
- the possibility of managing a blacklist/whitelist of e-mail addresses
- the possibility of managing a blacklist/whitelist of words in e-mails
- the possibility of excluding certain codes, in order to reduce spam
If you have other ideas/requests concerning the Gandi Mail service, please remember that we are listening to you
Monday 17 September 2007
Launch of .CO.UK!
By Ryan on Monday 17 September 2007, 13:17
Registration of this ccTLD is open to all; it is not necessary that you live in the United Kingdom. The registration period is a minimum of 2 years. For those that are interested, please remember that you need to 'push' your domain to our TAG (GANDI) before launching the transfer request.
Details of this ccTLD are available here
The rates for .CO.UK domains can be found here
At the same time, we are pleased to announce the release of.org.uk domains!
Details of this ccTLD are available here
The rates for .ORG.UK domains can be found here
Tuesday 28 August 2007
.mobi Release!
By Nicolas on Tuesday 28 August 2007, 13:45
The .mobi tld is a generic extension for mobile platforms. There are no registration restrictions.
The details of this extension are available at :
http://www.gandi.net/domain/mobi/info
The rate list can be found at :
https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/detail/mobi/
There are many more extensions in preparation that will be released by the end of the year.
Wednesday 6 June 2007
Prepaid accounts and automatic domain name renewal now available for everyone!
By Angela on Wednesday 6 June 2007, 11:30
Here at Gandi, we have noticed that a large number of our users forget to renew their domains on time. It certainly is a shame to have to pay the cost of restoring a domain (when possible) instead of the standard renewal.
Thursday 3 May 2007
USA! USA! USA!
By Ryan on Thursday 3 May 2007, 16:55
Many of our American customers have been anxiously waiting for the day when they could see how much they are actually spending at Gandi.net (sure, multiplying by 1.3-something-or-other could get you there, but how annoying is that...)
Well...those days are over! In line with our perpetual drive to provide you with new services, as of this afternoon you can now pay for your operations at Gandi in US Dollars!

Not only that, but in recognition of the wonderful support that we have been receiving from our American customers (they make up the second-largest country in terms of sales, and the American media such as CNET.com, miconian.com, or inta.org like to comment on our integrity, customer-friendliness, and technical know-how...), we are now selling .US domains!
We really can't say it enough, so we'll say it again...thank you, all of you! It really warms our hearts to feel your support from across the Atlantic Ocean!
Tuesday 24 April 2007
Here are the changes made to Gandi from 03/04 to 02/04
By Ryan on Tuesday 24 April 2007, 18:33
- Online ownership change for .be domain names
- Addition of an sending of e-mails warnings for orders that are blocked
- Saving of your preferred number of domains to be viewed per page in your control panel
- Ordering of domains by expiration date (the closest on top)
- Possibility of renewing up to 500 domains at once
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