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Gandi likes Non-Profit associations

Non-profit associations make the world a better place, and we want the world to be better. That's why we just launched a program to help those associations successful in making significant changes by allowing them to benefit from our services at exceptionally low rates, or even in some cases, for free.


Gandi Simple Hosting Now Live in the USA

Following a successful launch in Europe, Gandi has now rolled out our PaaS Simple Hosting offering to the US. Gandi customers can now choose to host their instances in our Paris or Baltimore data centers, making Simple Hosting more flexible, and bringing the benefits of our powerful, easy-to-use PaaS closer to US customers.





Zone file management: many new improvements

Zone file management at Gandi is one of the critical aspects of domain names. While efficient, our interfaces remained unchanged since 2006. The new version is the result of much internal discussion, and was designed in such a way as to bring you the improvements that were requested on our wishlist as well as the ones that we would have liked to see as customers ourselves :)





Accented .FR domains

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...



Gandi Stands in Opposition to CISPA

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.




DNSSEC at Gandi (UPDATED)

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!


The Importance of Our Customers

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.


И лове РФ

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.


Monitor Your Domain Name

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.



On the Management and Coherence - of the 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.




New Domain Name and Email API

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!.


Price Increase for .COM/.NET/.BIZ

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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