Comment by franciscop | Hacker News Reader

Comment by franciscop | Hacker News Reader

I used to recommend Gandi, now I recommend NOT using it. The "no BS" sounds good but they do the same marketing BS as any others, and some times worse:

- How to delete a domain? Well, you cannot. You are supposed to let it expire, so you get ransaked by all the emails reminding you to renew a domain (a HIGH alert notification by nature which you should never ignore) but now you have to double/triple check every time to make sure it was about a domain you "WANT" to expire. Congrats, you mixed the highest priority emails with the lowest priority ones and trained people to ignore them.

- When buying a domain there's some extra services Heissenberged into your Cart. To be fair, they appear in your cart but I'm not sure if they are added or not, since there's a check and a X next to them, so just in case you have to manually remove the extra BS they (maybe) "add" to your cart.

This is prob no BS but Gandi is a domain registrar, when I log in it takes me to a page full of internal ads (a useless "Dashboard") instead of the domain screen. Please, just take me to my domains, that's like your whole thing.

Me too. Moved everything to Namesilo and it just works. Now, if one wants Full Blown BS, they should choose Namecheap [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581

> you get ransaked by all the emails reminding you to renew a domain

Just saw the 'Let a domain lapse' section in the domain overview. It'll stop all non-mandatory reminders of the domain's end-of-life cycle, as they say.

There's no mention of that at all in the "How can I delete a domain?" section though. Guess what normal people (like me) google when they want to remove an domain? "Delete domain gandi" or "Remove domain gandi", which ends you up here:

https://docs.gandi.net/en/domain_names/faq/deletion.html

Oh yeah, they're way behind on that! It took them this long just to acknowledge the new email plans on the website I don't even care any more.

As a long time customer of Gandi, I've never seen "extra services Heissenberged into [my] cart" when buying domains from them. Would be an instant red-flag, but here we are...

Okay they have changed the wording a bit and now it's a bit more clear that hosting was not actually added to my cart, that it's a discount that I can remove for Hosting and not actual hosting (why is a discount even added to my cart though?). It used to be a bit more unclear, and the "trash" icon besides the "X" icon is also pretty weirdly placed IMHO, but yeah at least the wording is slightly better now:

"Your first yearly web hosting subscription is 50% off. This offer cannot be applied to your shopping cart" (then why did you add it???).

https://imgur.com/a/u7Kjgj7

I've been using Gandi for years and I'm looking for a new registrar. Which one(s) are you recommending ?

Porkbun has been good for me, just a couple domains though.

I've moved a few of my domains from Gandi to Cloudflare, though their selection of available TLDs is somewhat limited and until recently you couldn't register domains directly. I was considering moving back to Gandi from Cloudflare, but looks like I'll have to look around... again.

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