Gandi Bar - Comments

Simple Hosting is live! - Pothi Kalimuthu

Pothi Kalimuthu — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:23:07 -0400

I've been using yours for the past few days. It rocks! I couldn't believe how fast it is. Now I only wish I could add sub-domains. I do not need a way to add add-on domains, though.

Thanks,
Pothi

Simple Hosting is live! - Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:48:24 -0400

Hello Lennie,
Actually we have anycast set up between our Paris and US DNS servers. You are right, it makes a significant difference.

Alby, I'm not 100% sure what you are asking for, but we do have a control panel for the Simple Hosting instance. Perhaps you could be a bit more detailed in your request for additional features, and put them here?

http://en.gandi.net/hosting/wishlis...

Thanks for all the comments!

Simple Hosting is live! - alby

alby — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:54:11 -0400

Gandi congratulations for the achivement , but I couldn t find the info about :
Control panel type/ brand, file management, check performance . looking forward for your detailed info

Simple Hosting is live! - Lennie

Lennie — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:24 -0400

I do have 2 suggestions:

1. You should consider moving one or two of the nameservers for gandi.net to the US
2. the button below says preview, but actually does a submit

New Domain Name and Email API - Lennie

Lennie — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:47:13 -0400

Looking forward to being able to set a DS-record to the API for my external domain.

New Domain Name and Email API - Nicolas

Nicolas — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:42:57 -0400

Around the 15th of February. Backend and test are done.
It will be available first on gTld and .fr for External DNS (not for the Gandi DNS itself)

New Domain Name and Email API - kyhwana

kyhwana — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:04:37 -0400

Any timeline on DNSSEC? Otherwise looking at doing it myself and using linode's DNS servers as slaves while running my own DNS server as a primary :|

The United States Congress is Set to Enable Internet Censorship Tools - Stan

Stan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:25:28 -0400

Does Gandi provide financial support to OccupyOakland?

Simple Hosting is live! - Mohamed Esmat Farag

Mohamed Esmat Farag — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:34:58 -0400

Why didn't you mention all inclusives:
- Control panel type/ brand
- Clearly detail description of level of privileges compared to the hosting standard of: Dedicated Admin, VPS Admin (with or without reboot privileges), Shared Admin (with or without Reseller privileges) etc.
Thanks

The Evolution of Domain Names - Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:26:22 -0400

Good question. As with any new technology, there will be a period of adoption. Early adopters with high risk tolerances will go first, other more squeamish (or less well funded) types will follow. While it's new it will be novel, so that will get them some press.
If you want my opinion, it's not going to make much difference to existing domains/brands. There will be an effect, of course, but I think it will be more like the shiny new thing effect: good to draw attention to a domain name that represents something new, but not really more or less valuable than the old .com that all your customers remember and can type blindfolded. It's also true that the advent of search engines has changed the landscape to favor older domains (age of domain is a factor in SEO), and sites that are engineered to be easily found in a search. Bottom line is: Domain names matter if they are established and easy to remember. To me melbourne.com is as memorable as foo.melbourne...

The Evolution of Domain Names - Michael Searles

Michael Searles — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:01:22 -0400

Thanks for the article.

One question -- to what extent do you think the dollar value of a registered brand.com domain (eg. Melbourne.com) will be affected by the registration of the corresponding .brand domain (eg. .Melbourne)? Will domain name resellers have reason to feel nervous that the value of their portfolios stand to be reduced one domain at a time?

Simple Hosting is live! - tim

tim — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:28:18 -0400

My customer is mainly from US,how about the connection speed?

Simple Hosting is live! - Ícaro (from Brazil)

Ícaro (from Brazil) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:39:15 -0400

Diogo, all2all.net is good.
They use 100% free software(free as freedom) and have good prices.

I paid only one month to test the Simple Hosting, but still not what I need.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - BAReFOOt

BAReFOOt — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:31:39 -0400

Hmm… Seems your “preview” button does actually publish things right away, and there is no preview. :/

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - BAReFOOt

BAReFOOt — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:30:35 -0400

I’m deeply disappointed, that you still support organized crime (the “media” Mafia), by using fake/propaganda words like “piracy”. You should, by now, know exactly and know why information can not be owned, sold or stolen. Why making a copy does not harm the person that the copy was made from. That copyright is specifically designed to abuse artists and creatives. (It's not authors’ right, after all! It’s a distributors' “right”.) That the whole thing “intellectual property” is a protection racket, and a crime. That they are accusing us of the exact thing *they* are doing. *They* are ripping off artists in a service-based adhesion contract, while wanting money for every copy, even though they didn’t do a single bit of work in return, and actually didn’t do any work at all anyway!

The thing is, that their fraudulent model (the *exact* opposite of your “no bullshit” philosophy, by the way) doesn’t work anymore, in a world where there is the Internet.
That’s why they want to stop the Internet in the first place.

It's a crime. It hurts *everyone*, except for a small group of lazy cocaine-filled douches. If you support it, you’re a criminal. And you don’t have to support SOPA to support it. If you so much as spread the lie of “intellctual property” or “piracy”, you’re already deep inside it.
Please don't be criminals. Ok?

Thank you.

(Yes, I’m a information scientist, specializing in information physics and that whole “IP” racket.)

Simple Hosting is live! - Diogo

Diogo — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:46:41 -0400

Gandi simples hosting solution seems perfect for my low, low requirements, I just wish it had SSH access and it would be exactly what I needed Not being able to do an rsync or scp using helpful shell scripts, such as Drush for Drupal, or pulling changes from an CVS saddens me.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:38:12 -0400

Transferred a personal .ws domain from GoDaddy to here - liked the interface and the feel of the site enough that I moved my domains from a registrar I was perfectly happy enough with too.
I'll be moving another 50 or so of the company I work for from GoDaddy next week.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:14:58 -0400

Swan,
Thanks for suggesting that "history" article. I'm looking into it, and will post something on the gandibar about how we got where we are, and where we are going. To me it seems that the roller coaster ride is far from over.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - Stephen Howells

Stephen Howells — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:07:31 -0400

Thank you for the reassurance regarding DNSSEC support Nicolas. I realize that this has been an ongoing request for over a year and I'm glad to hear Gandi is still committed to making it happen. I just recently transferred my domains to Gandi in part because DNSSEC was on your roadmap. I very much look forward to this feature.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - Nicolas (Gandi)

Nicolas (Gandi) — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:43:06 -0400

Registries have almost all open DNSSEC or give specifications about it. We will finish work on it first to give the possibility to use DNSSEC with your own DNS server , in a second step we will add it on our dns server.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Stokes

Stokes — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:47:46 -0400

I see that the total due is $15.00 for my transfer from godaddy. Has this offer expired?

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Byte

Byte — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 02:30:22 -0400

It's interesting to read that Gandi is in agreement with "the goals of anti-piracy efforts"; what about Fair Use? How about "the toddler dancing to a popular song playing on the TV"? How about sound recordings from before WW2 still being (c) by some label? Come to think of it, which sound recordings have actually passed in the Public Domain in the US? Is Gandi really in agreement with all that? Yes, if you publish one of those 1940s home-made 78 rpm recordings of great-great-grandparents singing "Happy Birthday To You", Warner Music can order it taken down. And Gandi is apparently in agreement that.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - EkriirkE

EkriirkE — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:41:23 -0400

Everything's Moved! Well, almost. It seems even though all my domains were unlocked, properly auth'd, paid for to Gandi, and approved, all of my .ME domains failed because they appear to still be locked by GoDaddy, they are not relinquishing them!

How long is my committed order valid while I sort them out?

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:29:12 -0400

Remember! 29 December is move your domain day!

Let's relieve Godaddy of the domains once and for all!

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - Niklas

Niklas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:26:00 -0400

@anonymous

No, I require DNSSEC because it is 2012 soon and we have been promised support for over a year now. I do not require Gandi to rewrite anything, just to deliver what was promised.

I could not care less that you think it is not ready for deployment. I run my other domains under another registrar fully signed and I expect to do that with all my domains. I should have transferred all my domains there but I believed the lies.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - swan

swan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:36:34 -0400

I would love to see a blog entry to understand how ICANN is actually influenced by the big players like GoDaddy/Verisign. Who is really in favour of these 1273189732198 new TLDs. I read CircleID and it all seems incredibly biased towards marketing people rather than the core values of the Domain Name System. It's hard to keep track of the atrocities that companies like Verisign have done to DNS, and it seems like the system continues to regress.

I would love to see a simplified history showing what has happened over the last two decades to get where we are. Why there was once a phase where domain sampling was possible. Why automated botnet systems actually go through the effort of registering domains based on PRNGs, etc.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - Adam

Adam — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:09:59 -0400

Wow... reading through the blog post I was expecting a rather substantial price increase. I'm really surprised to see it's only $.50. I appreciate y'all being so upfront about such a small price increase. It's stuff like this that keeps me renewing my domains with y'all.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - David Metcalfe

David Metcalfe — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:55:43 -0400

You folks have done much already for the benefit of the customer, with plenty of your competition already providing similar services for far higher prices. I thank you for your sacrifices so far. A $0.50 increase is a pittance to continue supporting such commitment.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:25:25 -0400

@Niklas

Let me get this straight -- you're begging for DNSSEC from Gandi without realizing that the majority of the DNS software on the planet hasn't even finalized an implementation of it? Do you expect Gandi to just rewrite an entire DNS software stack to appease you? The entire concept of DNSSEC is very alpha, so how about you sit back down and wait a few years until the standard is properly implemented and then you can point fingers.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - GogglesPisano

GogglesPisano — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:47:44 -0400

Just transferred my domain from GoDaddy.com to here, based on recommendations on reddit.com. Thanks for the price decrease and for decrying SOPA as the abomination that it is.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - killbam

killbam — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:13:45 -0400

Is is great that Gandi.net has come out against SOPA, and I'm more than happy to have my domains hosted here as well as encourage other people to do the same. I hope that Gandi continues to speak out against SOPA, PIPA, and all censorship laws by all governments.

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - cmeerw

cmeerw — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:14:41 -0400

The one thing that Gandi doesn't tell us here is that Verisign has now implemented DNSSEC, so at least the registry offers new features for the price increase. Gandi on the other hand just passes on the price increase, but doesn't pass on the new features that have already been implemented by the registry.

And with Gandi's history of promising everything in a few months, but never keeping these promises, it's hard to be sympathetic here...

Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - Niklas

Niklas — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:45:09 -0400

It is almost 2012. I was promised DNSSEC almost a year ago.

Can you please give a realistic time frame when you will deploy it? It must be accurate this time.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Nicolas (Gandi)

Nicolas (Gandi) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:40:22 -0400

Yes we have decrease our gtld transfer in price in USD for a week. For more than 100 transfer you can contact me directly on Nicolas@

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - EkriirkE

EkriirkE — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 02:06:16 -0400

I just transferred 5 domains to Gandi as they were about to be renewed and will be doing the remaining 70-odd domains on "NoDaddy Domain Transfer Day" the 28th. Is there some kind of coupon code you guys can offer to make the transfers a little bit easier?

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - UnnDunn

UnnDunn — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:25:34 -0400

I just completed the transfer of 7 domains from GoDaddy to gandi.net. Hope you guys don't let me down.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - osmosis

osmosis — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:24:51 -0400

If you could support bitcoin as a payment method, you would be king in my book!

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - dt

dt — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:50:37 -0400

I am transferring one domain, is there any promo code I can use?

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - HD

HD — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:27:47 -0400

Thanks for standing up - transferred 38 domains and counting so far.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Mikee

Mikee — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:58:59 -0400

Add me as another new customer who came over from GD today after seeing the good reviews on reddit.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Michael Moore (Gandi)

Michael Moore (Gandi) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:13:21 -0400

If you are paying in US Dollars, Gandi has currently discounted the transfer rate of .biz, .com, .info, .net, and .org domains to $8.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - broseph

broseph — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:02:16 -0400

I am planning on transferring a domain here as well. Based on recommendations by: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/...

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Isarian

Isarian — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:16:20 -0400

I transferred my two domains to Gandi away from GoDaddy due to recommendations for you on Reddit, due to your position on SOPA. Money well spent, I think.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Paul

Paul — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:52:22 -0400

I have one domain remaining with SOPA supporting GoDaddy. Are you offering any specials for transfers right now like other registrars are?

I am a current Gandi customer and would like to have this one domain moved over but I'm paid up until 2017 with GoDaddy so I need a good price to help in my personal protest.

Gandi's Opposition to the SOPA Legislation - Will

Will — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:37:57 -0400

As a company operating outside the US will you be non-compliant with requests made under SOPA?

Gandi Pricing Compared to Amazon EC2 - Sam

Sam — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:53:50 -0400

Yes, this is very misleading. Appropriate data transfer amounts should be used.

Gandi Pricing Compared to Amazon EC2 - Robin

Robin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:01:19 -0400

You say “no bullshit”, but then you go ahead and pick a unreasonable amount of data transfer. All but the largest web applications will use far smaller amounts of transfer. Most small servers have trouble even hitting the 1GB mark. However even 50GB, a fair limit for the more active servers, would reduce your $96.00 to a small $5.88.

What about our IaaS hosting? - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:54:25 -0400

(Side note: hitting the "preview" button on the comment form posts the comment; it doesn't show a preview.)

What about our IaaS hosting? - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:53:48 -0400

I just read this news posting for the first time, and noticed the phrase "there will be a bandwidth quota added". That concerns me greatly; I found gandi's use of unmetered bandwidth incredibly awesome, because it meant I could easily predict my costs every month. While I can understand wanting to have the option of having a huge amount of burstable bandwidth and paying bandwidth charges, I hope you continue to keep the option of having a modest amount of flat, unmetered bandwidth.

What about our IaaS hosting? - Nicolas (Gandi)

Nicolas (Gandi) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:58:01 -0400

We have FreeBSD 9.0 and NetBSD 5.1 available for alpha testers...you can ask our customer care team if you want to be integrated into the alpha tester population