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Gandi is a domain registrar first and in that respect they're lightyears ahead of the competition. They don't do shady stuff of squatting on your domain searche
by plesiv 6y ago
Gandi is a domain registrar first and in that respect they're lightyears ahead of the competition. They don't do shady stuff of squatting on your domain searches etc.
If you choose to use a value added service like VPS, you should expect subpar experience. You can go to any cloud provider and find a service for which you're going to have a worse experience than you had with Gandi VPS.
- dannyw 6y agoYep, this is like going to IKEA to buy kitchen knives.
- idnag_kcuf 6y agoIf I bought what turned out to be blunt or broken kitchen knives from IKEA, and they refused to accept a return and offer a refund, I wouldn't shop there again either.
- idnag_kcuf 6y agoNo I shouldn't expect a subpar experience, and that's why I no longer use Gandi. Claiming not to do shady things with user data is the minimum I expect from a domain registrar. Fortunately, Gandi aren't unique in that respect. Gandi came highly recommended to me, so I was quite disappointed by the reality.
- dennis_jeeves 6y agoSo who in your opinion is _clearly_ better than Gandi?
- vntok 6y agoOVH, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS... everyone else is much better performance and stability wise.
- djeiasbsbo 6y agoTry njalla, a privacy focused domain provider. It was founded by Peter Sunde, one of the original creators of The Pirate Bay. You can pay with crypto currencies and they even have a .onion domain of their website, so you can reach them over Tor.
- tga 6y agoNjalla is not a domain registrar. They buy the domain themselves, and let you pay with Dogecoins -- possibly a good deal for the next Pirate Bay, but not what I would use for general domain registration. There is a good chance one day they will go down and take your (their!) domain with them. From their website: --- We're not actually a domain name registration service, we're a customer to these. [...] When you buy a domain in our system, we're actually purchasing it for ourselves. We will be the actual owners of the domain.
- 88 6y agoI would add that their dreadful customer service extends to domains as well. In my experience having to engage after a technical issue on their side, they were rude, argumentative, and totally unhelpful. If you value your domains I would register them literally anywhere else.
- manuel_w 6y ago> They don't do shady stuff of squatting on your domain searches etc. According to other HN users, they do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22002534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22002534