Gandi announced a price increase and discontinuation of free mailboxes

https://feddit.it/post/325161

Gandi announced a price increase and discontinuation of free mailboxes - Feddit.it

It looks like it’s time to “shop around”. What registrar are you guys using?

I like Cloudflare's registrar a lot. Zero BS and great integration with the other services I'm already using.
Yeah, that’s a solid choice! I’ve used their proxy service and was pretty solid.
Where did read this annoucement?
I received the notice via email, but their FAQ about GandiMail discontinuation is here. Updated prices list (PDF) is here
FAQ – new mailbox offer and management of your current mailboxes – Gandi News

Thank you very much. I did not receive this email yet, hence my surprise. Time to move my last mailbox on my server.

I use namesilo. I moved there before they sold in 2018 and I haven’t found a reason to leave despite the changes. It still does everything I need and pricing is good enough.

I’m on cloud flare now so that’s probably where I’ll go if I’m ever bothered to move

@g5pw @selfhosted I use namecheap and the only annoyance I have is the api access. I use ddclient to keep one of my domains updated with my home ip address, but when my ISP changes the ip address, I have to manually go to the namecheap site to update the ip address whitelist to allow ddclient to connect.
It makes ddclient much less useful.

Apart from that, I haven't had any issues wit the registrar side of things.
OVH, for the TLDs I have they were cheapest in Europe and DNS is just working.
Are they really charging a 50% price increase on top of the discontinuation of the free mailbox? Looking at the sheet, they're charging 35 EUR for my domain that normally costs me 20 EUR and only 13 USD on sites like Cloudflare... Am I not reading it right?

I think I will stop using Gandi. They are too expensive and don't provide much value compared to other registrars.

The price for the TLD of my custom domain doubled. With the new prices, it's cheaper for me to get the domain at OVH (cheaper than Gandi's previous price) and mailboxes at mailbox.org, than the domain alone at Gandi.

Yeah, I was registering my domains there because they are in Europe and had some extra services, I’ll be taking my business elsewhere now
They’re not even trying to pretend they offer competitive domain prices anymore. Last time I renewed the prices for the 5 TLD’s I use varied $15-22, this year they’re all $30. That’s a 75-100% increase accross the board.
Namecheap and porkbun
Cloudflare offers registration of most domains at their wholesale cost.