Gandi Bar - Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ - Comments

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.

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.

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.