Promotion on .COM and .ORG renewals before ICANN authorised price rises

Ryan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:27:00 +0200

The increase in domain costs has unfortunately arrived...
The new ICANN contract that was "negotiated" in early 2006 authorizes up to 4 annual price increases of up to 10% over a 6-year period. After an average increase of 6% last year, the registries are now asking for an average increase of 8.5% beginning in October 2008.

As we mentioned last year (see here), our rates will not be able to remain unaffected by this. Our increase will begin on October 1st for .com domains, and November 9th for .org domains. They will only affect customers with C,D, and E rates, for which the increase will be €0.20/£0.15/$0.30 per domain and per year for purchases and renewals respectively.

We we aware of the additional cost that this means for you, but with the tension caused by the low value of the US dollar and the near certainty of yet another price increase next year force us to act this year in order to maintain an irreproachable level of service.

Promotion on .COM and .ORG renewals
In order to help you benefit from current rates, we are having a promotion before the price hike, of 10% off .com and .org renewals for renewal periods from 3 to 10 years.
.COM and .ORG renewals will therefore be:

€10.80 / $13.50 / £7.47 excl. VAT for A rates,
€9.90 / $12.60 / £6.84 excl. VAT for B rates,
€8.10 / $10.80 /£5.58 excl. VAT for C rates,
€6.75 / $9.00 / £4.68 excl. VAT for D rates,
€5.40 / $7.20 / £3.74excl. VAT for E rates.

Gandi helps guard your privacy

Ryan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:15:00 +0200

Until now we have provided you with an anti-spam email address that helps protect you from the result of the publication of your real email address in the public Whois database. We have also vowed to never resell any of your information to a third party.
Today, Gandi now gives individuals the possibility of private domain registration for domains in COM, NET, ORG, INFO, BIZ, NAME, TV, CC, and MOBI, that completely hides your street address, email, telephone and fax number.
To see what this looks like in detail, I invite you to view its presentation page at http://www.gandi.net/domain/whois

This service is free of charge and is made via your account management page. It requires just the acceptance of the Annex to the General Terms and Conditions of Domain Name Registration which you can read at https://www.gandi.net/contracts/en/whois/pdf/

Activation of this service in no way exonerates you from providing complete, exact and reliable contact information. Indeed, in the event of a verification either by Gandi or the registry, the non-disclosure of your current, full and accurate contact information can lead to the suspension or deletion of domain names managed under that handle. Also, this service is not one of providing an alternative contact address, of anonymity, or a forwarding of messages. There will therefore not be any forwarding of letters, messages or documents from people that try to reach you at our address.

This is therefore not a service just for convenience, but one that we provide for you as a way to help protect your privacy. The fact that it is free should also assure you that this offering is not just to make more money: is it a present from Gandi?

Finally, I would like to remind you that for the majority of European countries, individuals are already fully protected, as is true with .FR, or partially protected as with .EU (only the e-mail address is displayed).

If you would like to comment on this, please feel free to join us at the Gandi Bar.

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Promotion on .COM and .ORG renewals before ICANN authorised price rises

Gandi helps guard your privacy