Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF until Jan 15th

Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by pclark on Thursday December 29, 2011 @03:21PM (#3405202)

I am a huge fan of Gandi. Yes, they are slightly more expensive than other services, but I find their user interface not just good, but really quite amazing.

One simple but obvious feature they have is the ability to create DNS presets and apply those for new domains, it's really useful. (other people probably offer this)

Gandi also has fantastic support; it is slightly sad that they do not have a telephone number, but I get the vibe that Gandi is a real technology company and they believe they can offer premium support with support email. I agree, but I'd still like a telephone number for burning issues.

My only real complaint is that they have an unbelievably stupid login system where you log in not with a username, nor with an email address, but with an entirely random username. Mine is: PC5669-GANDI. It's infuriating if you ever need to use Gandi on a different computer. Why they saw it suitable to put their company name at the end of every login is puzzling.

Honestly though, its a minor criticism, and I love their "no bullshit" policy: http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit

In my experience it is true.

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by davyjones on Thursday December 29, 2011 @04:45PM (#3405533)

Agreed on the "stupid login system" part.

I accidentally found out that you can actually cut out everything after and including the hyphen and it will still work.

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by AdamGibbins on Friday December 30, 2011 @05:41AM (#3407235)

I'm not certain, but I have a feeling this is some crazy French law. The other French company I work with on a regular basis (OVH) do this also.

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by madflo on Friday December 30, 2011 @06:38AM (#3407325)

This is called a NIC handle : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIC_handle

This is not some crazy French law; Gandi has been in the registrar business for quite a long time and OVH loves standards :-)

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by AdamGibbins on Friday December 30, 2011 @06:54AM (#3407364)

Good spot, thanks :) Never even occurred to me it would be registrar related, as I don't use OVH as a registrar - they must apply the same standard to all their customers.

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by juanre on Thursday December 29, 2011 @04:42PM (#3405517)

I also use Gandi. I moved away from godaddy some years ago, and I am happy with the change. Good customer support, clean interface. If only they changed their brain-dead login system, and made their web work with something other than firefox, they'd be awesome.

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by mike-cardwell on Thursday December 29, 2011 @04:34PM (#3405492)

Does their DNS management interface support all of the major RR types? Ie, A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME, NS, SRV? Most don't seem to support AAAA and SRV.

Also, do they support DNSSEC? Ie, can I use their web interface to upload DS records to my domains parent zone?

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by kijin on Thursday December 29, 2011 @05:55PM (#3405799)

Not sure about individual record types, but Gandi allows you to upload raw zone files.

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by FaceKicker on Thursday December 29, 2011 @08:57PM (#3406253)

I've had a great experience with their VPS service as well. I chose it just because it was the cheapest one I found when I briefly looked around, but I've had 100% uptime for the entire 6 months I've had it.

The username thing is indeed very annoying though.

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Re:Gandi.net will contribute $1 per inbound transfer to EFF ... by dbalatero on Saturday December 31, 2011 @12:12PM (#3411268)

One trick I use if I forget my login is to whois my domain. The handle should be under one of the three domain contacts.

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