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Wednesday 25 August 2010
By Ryan on Wednesday 25 August 2010, 15:02 - Gandi
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Wednesday 30 June 2010
By Ryan on Wednesday 30 June 2010, 23:02 - Gandi

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Monday 31 May 2010
By Ryan on Monday 31 May 2010, 15:04 - Gandi
Verisign, the registry for the extremely popular extensions (.com, .net), unilaterally decided to raise domain registration AND renewal prices for the third time in four years. Gandi was informed about this decision on December 17th 2009.
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Tuesday 18 May 2010
By Ryan on Tuesday 18 May 2010, 15:56
Whether you are a fan of SiteMaker or just getting started, you are absolutely going to love the latest release of SiteMaker!
The new version provides you with a larger work space that is clearer and easier to use. We have also added powerful new features such as tools for Google, the ability to insert HTML code directly into your website, and a total overhaul of the member system.
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Thursday 8 April 2010
By Ryan on Thursday 8 April 2010, 11:35 - Hosting
We have now released version 3.0.3 of Gandi.net (version 3.0.2 wasn't very exciting and mainly to do with our 10-year anniversary). The exciting part of this new release is a change in the way that we handle VPS shares, and the ability to add RAM on demand to your server.
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Wednesday 7 April 2010
By Joe on Wednesday 7 April 2010, 20:16 - Gandi
For those following this story, it’s been a pretty confusing and unsettling ordeal. And we’re certainly sorry for the part we played and adding to the confusion. But this was a play with many players, so let us set out below what happened and why. The major players in this drama were: Gandi.net (us), Moxie (the customer) and Comodo (the SSL technology provider). I could add the the Easter weekend, but I won't. And everyone played a part in this going wrong and shares some of the responsibility. We’ll set out why below.
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Tuesday 6 April 2010
By Joe on Tuesday 6 April 2010, 10:36 - Internet
TheRegister.co.uk ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/05/googlesharing_cert_revoked/ ) last night published an article describing how Gandi.net had enforced its policies by removing a certificate for a domain name googlesharing.net that had infringed on our terms and conditions in a number of ways. According to the article the known ‘hacker’ who admitted to falsifying his whois information on the registration was surprised that the certificate was removed.
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Friday 19 March 2010
By Ryan on Friday 19 March 2010, 17:38 - Gandi's Restaurant
And meet the crew that gives Gandi that special touch?
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Friday 12 March 2010
By Leland Vandervort on Friday 12 March 2010, 11:27 - Gandi
As a result of increasing levels of misuse of our Gandi Mail service, we are obliged to take immediate measures to protect not only our infrastructure, but also the integrity and quality of the Gandi Mail service for all of our customers.
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Tuesday 9 March 2010
By Ryan on Tuesday 9 March 2010, 18:32 - Gandi
We did it: at 3:59:53 PM (CET) Gandi officially hit 1,000,000 domain names.
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Friday 5 March 2010
By Stephan on Friday 5 March 2010, 10:32 - Gandi
But not to exclude new customers, they will be able to sign up and grab a single promo code. But that’s not the end of it. For those of you lucky enough to get several promo codes you can either use them yourselves, or choose to give them to your friends, family, enemies (maybe not enemies), or just a nice looking stranger.


Thursday 4 March 2010
By Joe on Thursday 4 March 2010, 13:40 - Gandi
Seeing as this is an issue that is now affecting some of our customers, we thought we’d write a quick post to let you know what is going on. As those of you who know Gandi.net will know, our entire history has been about being fair to our customers and taking a stand against the shady practices of the domain name industry, and the internet industry in general. This of course includes anti-spam policies, and indeed we support SpamHaus which is an anti-spam organisation (http://www.gandi.net/supports/)
So it is with surprise and regret that we must tell you that we have been blacklisted by SORBS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_and_Open_Relay_Blocking_System) for “harbouring spammers”, a charge which I’m sure you can agree is unlikely.
This situation has arisen because of our customer protection processes that are core to our beliefs. Where a customer of ours is a spammer, then we will of course take action. We don’t protect spammers.
But we cannot take action against a customer until we are provided with proof that they actually are a spammer. The requirement of proof is something that we keep strict. There are many situations where complaints by one party against another without proof have led to action by domain companies which is hasty (http://news.cnet.com/2100-1025_3-6153607.html, and an article written about this and registrar complaint procedures following the action http://news.cnet.com/Survey-Are-domain-registrars-free-speech-friendly---page-2/2100-1025_3-6155614-2.html?tag=mncol)
So when you want to make a complaint about a domain or a customer of ours, please do (abuse at gandi.net), but you will require proof. And by proof we mean original and complete documentation showing the offense. In the case of spam, this must be full and complete email headers, and not extracts or a sample, or a cut and paste of something. The original headers please.
Similarly, we cannot take action based solely on circumstantial evidence that a given domain or individual may or may not be simply associated in some form with another person or entity, nor on the basis of simply subjective opinion.
Once we have this proof, we kick off our procedures. Immediately.
Anyway, back to SORBS. So back in December we were blacklisted by SORBS without notice. The SORBS process seems to be that you are blacklisted first, then you can have a conversation, and finally you can pay to be removed from their blacklist (see ‘criticism’ section http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_and_Open_Relay_Blocking_System).
We had two objectives at this stage;
For part 1, we required proof that an offense had taken place by our customer. SORBS initially did not provide complete and original proof of the spamming domains and the spam email. They wanted us to take action based on their assertion. It took many requests and replies before we were finally able to get the original documentation that they had in their possession all along.
Once we had this documentation, we have kicked off our RIP process to contact the customer and begin proceedings. The issue is still not clear cut, as no spam originated from Gandi, or the domains we host, but 2 domains we host were mentioned in the spam. We will investigate and let you know. So that’s part 1 done.
But for Part 2, we are still blacklisted. It seems the only way to be removed from the blacklist is to make a donation to a legal defence fund for a case won in 2002. We will not pay to be white-listed, this is just not the way we work. We will continue to follow this up with SORBS, but we cannot be sure of the outcome. Why they couldn’t speak first, punish later is still unclear. But paying to be removed is just not Gandi.
We regret that this has led to us being blacklisted, but we make no apology as we would do it all again. We will protect our customers rights until we have proof they have offended. Innocent until proven guilty. Is this so strange?
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause any of you, but we thought we should explain.
Tuesday 23 February 2010
By Ryan on Tuesday 23 February 2010, 17:04 - Gandi
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Thursday 11 February 2010
By Ryan on Thursday 11 February 2010, 18:36 - Gandi
Monday 18 January 2010
By Ryan on Monday 18 January 2010, 13:57 - Gandi
Being agile is important to us, and so we are pleased to bring you the first revision of Gandi V3 that takes into account your feedback (blog, twitter, forums, etc.)
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Wednesday 13 January 2010
By Ryan on Wednesday 13 January 2010, 06:49 - Gandi
Ok, so it's not the right Episode number, but this version of Gandi represents a major turning point for all of us at Gandi that we have been looking forward to for a long time now: rewriting a number of processes that have not been totally satisfactory for you.
The first visible change is the new version of the website. This update will highlight (some will say shout) our values, and will bring to you improved ergonomics (who was it that asked for faster domain searches and the ability to attach tags to domains?).
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Tuesday 5 January 2010
By Ryan on Tuesday 5 January 2010, 16:31 - Gandi
Before going into what we have planned for this year dear customer, I would like to share with you some of our accomplishments during 2009.
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Thursday 17 December 2009
By Joe on Thursday 17 December 2009, 23:08 - General
With its contract with ICANN allowing for 7% price increases per year Verisign has announced that it will again be executing this and raising the prices of COM domains to $7.34 from July 1 2010, and NET domains to $4.65. This has increased the COM price from its original base of $6 in just 3 years.
When we last spoke to Verisign at ICANN Sydney 2009 they suggested further price increases were unlikely. What's changed?
With the approach of the ICANN domain name liberalisation due early next year, this could either cement COMs status as a premium extension, or drive people to look for and explore other extensions. What do you think?
Monday 7 December 2009
By Ryan on Monday 7 December 2009, 10:05 - Internet
Wednesday 25 November 2009
By Ryan on Wednesday 25 November 2009, 16:48 - Hosting
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Friday 13 November 2009
By Ryan on Friday 13 November 2009, 09:08 - Hosting
Monday 9 November 2009
By Ryan on Monday 9 November 2009, 15:33 - Internet
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By Leland Vandervort on Monday 9 November 2009, 11:43 - Hosting
Today we are opening the beta-test phase for the implementation of IPv6 on our hosting platform.
As a reminder, IPv6 is the successor to the current IPv4 upon which the internet is based, and given the generous attribution of the early IP addresses, the IPv4 address space is rapidly running out of available adresses.
Its replacement is gently making its appearance across the
internet. An IPv6 address is made up of 128bits as opposed to 32bits
for an IPv4 address. We are moving from 2^32 available addresses to
2^128 (excluding reserved allocations, of course) which gives us a few
decades.. erm.. centuries to breathe! 
If you wish to participate in the beta test phase, you must:
- Have some basic knowledge of IPv6
- Have a Gandi server in expert mode (i.e. with root access)
- Send us a request to participate to ipv6beta@gandi.net and include your gandi handle/user-id. (You will receive an email by return with the procedure to follow).
Initially, we will limit the beta test to approximately 50 servers, so don't wait to send in your request! 
Thursday 5 November 2009
By Ryan on Thursday 5 November 2009, 08:32 - Internet
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Wednesday 4 November 2009
By Ryan on Wednesday 4 November 2009, 16:42 - Internet
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