Gandi's email service

Ceramic · 13 Aug 2013, 04:48 PM

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.

jeffpan · 13 Aug 2013, 04:51 PM

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.

Tsunami · 13 Aug 2013, 07:35 PM

Don't they also offer a blog or mini hosting webspace along with each domain (+ the mailbox as mentioned)?

Ceramic · 13 Aug 2013, 07:36 PM

Is it 5GB of space? Their website says 1GB shared by 5 accounts

https://www.gandi.net/domain/mail

jeffpan · 13 Aug 2013, 07:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mucalculus

Is it 5GB of space? Their website says 1GB shared by 5 accounts

https://www.gandi.net/domain/mail

it says:

Quote:

5 e-mail addresses, sharing a total of 1GB of disk space

it's totally 1GB.

jeffpan · 13 Aug 2013, 07:41 PM

This is my MX setup:

Quote:

dnsbed.com. 900 IN MX 10 fb.mail.gandi.net.
dnsbed.com. 900 IN MX 15 aspmx.l.google.com.
dnsbed.com. 900 IN MX 5 spool.mail.gandi.net.

As you see I run with Gandi as primary MX servers. But with google apps as backup servers.

Ceramic · 13 Aug 2013, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsunami

Don't they also offer a blog or mini hosting webspace along with each domain (+ the mailbox as mentioned)?

Yes.

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?

Tsunami · 13 Aug 2013, 07:53 PM

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

Ceramic · 13 Aug 2013, 08:35 PM

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

Tsunami · 14 Aug 2013, 06:38 AM

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)

jeffster · 14 Aug 2013, 08:29 AM

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.

Ceramic · 14 Aug 2013, 09:10 AM

A simple question: Suppose I register a domain xyz.co.uk.
Does this mean I also have abc.xyz.co.uk?

jeffpan · 14 Aug 2013, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mucalculus

A simple question: Suppose I register a domain xyz.co.uk.
Does this mean I also have abc.xyz.co.uk?

yes. if you can register the co.uk domain, thus all *.co.uk are yours, like bbc.co.uk.

David · 14 Aug 2013, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeffpan

yes. if you can register the co.uk domain, thus all *.co.uk are yours, like bbc.co.uk.

But this is not a Gandi feature; it is a reality, and can be done regardless of where you register your domain name.

Tsunami · 15 Aug 2013, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mucalculus

A simple question: Suppose I register a domain xyz.co.uk.
Does this mean I also have abc.xyz.co.uk?

Yes, if your registrar's interface to create subdomains is easy enough to use or if you have the knowledge to set up subdomains yourself. But once you own a domain (to use your example xyz.co.uk) you can in theory create as many subdomains (eg main.xyz.co.uk, shop.xyz.co.uk, office.xyz.co.uk ; ...) as you wish. You do have to have the knowledge for it, or have a very easy to use interface at your registrar. Often a registrar will allow only a maximum of X subdomains and email addresses per domain ; if you run your own server for your domain you set any restrictions (if any...) yourself.

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.

13 Aug 2013, 04:48 PM	#1
Ceramic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 124	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
jeffpan The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Macao Posts: 2,130 Representative of: tls-mail.com	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
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,336	Don't they also offer a blog or mini hosting webspace along with each domain (+ the mailbox as mentioned)?

13 Aug 2013, 07:36 PM	#4
Ceramic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 124	Is it 5GB of space? Their website says 1GB shared by 5 accounts https://www.gandi.net/domain/mail

13 Aug 2013, 07:53 PM	#8
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,336	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
Ceramic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 124	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
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,336	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)

14 Aug 2013, 08:29 AM	#11
jeffster Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bristol, England Posts: 70	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
Ceramic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 124	A simple question: Suppose I register a domain xyz.co.uk. Does this mean I also have abc.xyz.co.uk?