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13 Aug 2013, 04:48 PM | #1 |
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Gandi's email service
Jeffpan mentioned Gandi for registering domains.
An email account comes free with a domain purchase, 1GB. Anyone tried their email service? Right now, their least expensive domain extensions are about $8/year (upto 5-10 years), so for $8 a year, we get an email account and a domain name. Last edited by Ceramic : 13 Aug 2013 at 08:11 PM. |
13 Aug 2013, 04:51 PM | #2 |
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I transfered one of my commercial domains to them and began to use their email hosting.
I must say I am very happy with them both for domain hosting and email hosting. Their webmail use roundcube. All webmail/smtp/pop3/imap are SSL enabled. It has totally 5GB of storage, can be shared by 5 email accounts. |
13 Aug 2013, 07:35 PM | #3 |
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Don't they also offer a blog or mini hosting webspace along with each domain (+ the mailbox as mentioned)?
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13 Aug 2013, 07:36 PM | #4 |
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13 Aug 2013, 07:42 PM | #7 | |
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For the webpage they offer 3 "basekit pages" whatever that means. https://www.gandi.net/domain/basekit Can I have download links (for some small files) on the basekit pages? |
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13 Aug 2013, 07:53 PM | #8 |
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English version of the link you gave: https://www.gandi.net/domain/basekit?lang=en (I speak French but let's think of our fellow forumers who are not familiar with the language)
That said, neither the English nor the French text gives me the feeling I know exactly what to expect from this BaseKit. Is that like a three page website for introducing yourself? (almost like a profile page with 2 added pages as option, a sort larger version of about.me ?) You get a free blog too with each domain: https://www.gandi.net/domain/blog |
13 Aug 2013, 08:35 PM | #9 |
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I've mailed them about the 3 basekit pages. Lets see what they say.
Unrelated, a nice thing about them is that they offer private registration for free, wherever allowed by registry. https://www.gandi.net/domain/whois/ http://wiki.gandi.net/en/domains/private-registration |
14 Aug 2013, 06:38 AM | #10 |
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Please share the answer with us. I've considered Gandi before due to their free mail, free blog and apparently free mini website that come with each domain. That is a lot of value for a domain costing less than 10 €... And they are ICANN accredited to my knowledge, which I still prefer rather than using a reseller for buying domains (ICANN accredited = straight from the source)
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14 Aug 2013, 08:29 AM | #11 |
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I wholeheartedly recommend Gandi.
I recently registered my new primary domain with them. the quickness and ease to set up a domain is brilliant. Although I am using "EUMX" to host the email for that domain, I did try the Gandi email service, and found it very reliable. Having been so impressed with Gandi, I transferred my old legacy domain that I have had since 1997 from UK2 into Gandi, and have since bought another domain too. Gandi definitely live up to their "No BS" tagline in my experience. Lifehacker rate Gandi as one of the top 5 domain registrars at the current time, which is why I chose them. I havent been dissappointed in my decision at all. |
14 Aug 2013, 09:10 AM | #12 |
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A simple question: Suppose I register a domain xyz.co.uk.
Does this mean I also have abc.xyz.co.uk? |
14 Aug 2013, 10:36 AM | #13 |
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14 Aug 2013, 10:43 AM | #14 |
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15 Aug 2013, 01:09 AM | #15 | |
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In theory you can even create further sublevels. Here in Belgium the university of Leuven for example gives students an email account with @student.kul.ac.be . In the past USA registrations were regionally organised, such as yourdomain.denver.city.co.us (domain.city-name.legal-entity.state.US) and to my knowledge some of those regionalised ones can still take new registrations. |
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