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SUMMARY: A GLANCE
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1. git now available in Beta on Gandi Simple Hosting
2. A new version of BaseKit is ready to roll
3. Launch of the .PW extension
4. New gTLD extensions: what you need to know
5. Rate increase at the Registries
6. A reminder of our current promotions
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It's almost spring, though winter is visiting Europe once again for a last hurrah. Gandi has some updates for you to get you through the remaining dark days...
The git tool is now available on Gandi Simple Hosting, making the beta testers happy and rubbing their hands with anticipation of super easy code and content management. If that doesn't warm your heart, how about a new version of Basekit? Lots of cool things there, and we are also launching a new extension, .PW. For your viewing pleasure, we are making a nice preview of some gTLDs (a whole lot of them are on the way), and even letting you pre-select the ones you want. For a cold, hard reality that is not yet upon us, there is a price increase on the way for some popular extensions (though thankfully not for .COM).


1. git available on Beta Hosting Simple
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git is a code and file management tool well known to many web developers. This tool allows you to do version management on your code, revert easily to prior versions, merge code, fork, and collaborate. It's available right now, in beta test in the Paris data center. Anyone can start an instance there, so no reason to wait! To learn more about using git on your instances, click here.


2. A new version of BaseKit is ready to roll
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We are rolling out a new Gandi Basekit version this week, with new and improved templates, easier upgrades and better management screens. If you had been wanting to try Basekit, check it out now!  Here are some features we have added


3. Launch of the .PW extension
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.PW is the official extension of Palau, in Micronesia, with a little more
20,000 inhabitants. Most geeks (like us) think of "password" when we see the .PW at the end of a domain, but you could also think "Pro-Web", as in a professional working online. So if you are a Web marketing professional from Palau, or a geek sporting a beard, or both, you need to know that the official opening of this extension is on March 25th, and everyone is welcome to register. If you want to pre-registrer your .PW domains at Gandi,  just log in to your Gandi account, and register now! Prices for a .PW start at $15.00 (read more).



4. New extensions: you need to know
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Did you know that 2000 new extensions will be created over the next two years by ICANN? From .PARIS to .FOO (not to mention .FUN), registrations will multiply and domain names abound! Although many extensions will soon be forgotten after 15 minutes of fame, many will be imprinted permanently in the Internet landscape.

 

As always with this sort of thing, excluding the protection afforded to brand names, it is the law of first come, first served. Currently, estimates of the availability dates for the first extensions are leaning towards September. However, the registries do not yet know the conditions, nor the rates, for granting registrations.

 

That's why, starting at the end of the month, Gandi is offering pre-registration! This will allow you to choose among the extensions you are interested in and place free reservation orders. You'll be kept up to date regarding the selected extensions and can, if you wish, turn them into final orders when the time comes to decide.


5. Rate increase at the Registries
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Price increase? Yes, as we had announced last year, several major gTLDs ( namely .NET .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ and .NAME) will increase in price this summer. Interestingly, .COM will not increase, because the U.S. government did not authorize a price hike. We are, unfortuneatly, going to have to pass on this increase to our customers, and so these domains will end up more expensive by $0.51 to $0.78. For full details, dates and prices, see here.



6. Reminder of our current promotions
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Here's a little reminder of the promotions we are currently running on domain names:
- The .ASIA extension is available for $10.00 for creation of new domains for a year. This promotion is valid until April 30 2013 (read more).

- The .ME (for Montenegro) extension is 25% off, for creation of new domains at all price levels. Valid until the end of March. See here for more.


So dear reader, as always we want to hear from you. Send us your suggestions, comments, praise, criticism, and witticism. We read what you send to newsletter-en@gandi.net with interest.

Sincerely,
Nicolas Lhuillery
Product Director
gandi.net

PS: To subscribe from this newsletter, just change the Newsletter setting in your Gandi account.

Our version of BaseKit has just been updated, from v61 to v72. There is a big improvement in useability. You will also see many new themes, and you now have the possibility of globally changing languages (French, English, Spanish), as well as your themes "on the fly". The interface is easier to work with, more intuitivie, and responds faster than the previous version. It's a real pleasure to work with.

 

The other big improvement with regard to this version is that we will soon be able to provide the "Mobile" option of BaseKit. This will arrive in a few weeks, which will give us time to prepare a quickstart guide for you.

No action on your part is necessary to migrate to the new version. When you log into your site to edit it, you will see that your interface has been automatically updated. Your site will not be changed, but the new features will be available.

 

Small bonus: if you would like to create a new BaseKit website or upgrade your existing BaseKit website to a larger package, enter the code BK20 in the "promo code" field at checkout to get a 20% discount on your purchase. This promo code only works with creations/upgrades that are annual subscriptions. This promo code expires on April 14th.


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SUMMARY: AT A GLANCE
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1. Gandi's new Private VLANs
2. The Web Accelerator - a load balancer for web traffic
3. New extensions: .CM, .FI and .HU.NET
4. A special promotion for US customers
5. Other promotions in progress
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The new year is starting to heat up. Gandi is coming out of the winter cold with a blast of hot new products, and a huge giveaway for US customers that should help you shake off that chill and get ready for spring.


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1. Gandi's new Private VLANs
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All of you who have been wondering what new innovative product we were going to come out with next can stop guessing and start cheering. We are adding the ability to add private networking to our Gandi Cloud VPS instances. It's so simple to set up and use that you might miss how revolutionary the technology we came up with to do it actually is. When we release it as open source, it will rock the cloud computing world, blowing the doors off networking limitations that we and other cloud providers have been bumping up against.
Best of all, it's free to users of Gandi Cloud VPS systems.
http://www.gandibar.net/post/2013/02/05/Is-16-Million-VLANs-enough-for-you



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2. The Web Accelerator - a load balancer for web traffic
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Making web hosting faster is our passion, and we have done some really great things with caching in the last year or so, mostly by optimizing Varnish on Gandi Simple Hosting. We are leveraging that work to make a web load balancing and acceleration solution available this week in beta test.
This feature will let you add web caching and load balancing speed and redundancy features to your Gandi Cloud VPS web servers. This easy-to-use, yet powerful feature brings the kind of speed and optimization that the big web sites use to your sites, without the big bills of dedicated server farms.
http://www.gandibar.net/post/2013/02/11/An-Accelerator-for-your-Web-servers

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3. New extensions : .CM, .FI and .HU.NET
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This month, we are launching three new country-code top-level domains:

The .CM extension from Cameroon is now available at Gandi! Long sought for it's similarity to the ever-popular .COM, this extension can be registered at Gandi for $75 a year, at price level A:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-01-22/888-new_extension_.cm_at_gandi/

The .FI extension is now available as well, for Finnish residents or companies registered in Finland. You can register a .FI at Gandi for just $26 a year.
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-14/906-.fi_domains_available/

The .HU.NET, a great substitute for the official (and hard to register) .HU extension of Hungary, is now available. In contrast to the .HU, which requires Gandi Corporate Services to get, the .HU.NET is obtainable online!
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-14/907-new_centralnic_extension/

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4. A Special promotion for US Customers
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Gandi is an international company, and many of us live and work in the USA. We really love talking to our US customers, and we wanted to do something special this year for all of you who subscribe to this newsletter.
Some of you may have noticed already that you have TEN new promo codes in your account. Each of these is good for 50% off of a domain registration in any of the following extensions:  .NET, .ORG, .US, .INFO, .BIZ

You can find the promo codes in your account here:
https://www.gandi.net/admin/billing/promos

These will work until April 1. Enjoy them yourself, or pass them out to friends!



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5. Other promotions in progress
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Heres a quick reminder that we have some other promotions running:

- The .CO extension is also 50% off for the month of February, for all price levels! You can get one for just $16.50 at price level A, and even less for the deeper discount levels.
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-01/893-.co_at_half_price/

- Are you a Pro? Check out the .PRO extension at half of the normal price! It's $10 for the month of February, for all price levels:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-02-01/890-50_off_.pro_domains/

- The .ASIA extension is available for $10.00 for creation of new domains for a year. This promotion is valid until April 30 2013:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-01-03/871-.asia_for_10/

- The .ME (for Montenegro) extension is 25% off, for creation of new domains at all price levels. Valid until the end of March. See:
https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2013-01-08/878-.me_promo/


So dear reader, as always we want to hear from you. Send us your suggestions, comments, praise, criticism, and witticism. We read what you send to newsletter-en@gandi.net with interest.

Sincerely,

Thomas Stocking
COO, Gandi US, Inc.
http://www.gandi.net


A very special program! From now until December 31st 2012, if you have the last version of Mozilla Thunderbird, you can benefit from a free personal .ME email address at Gandi.net.

But the cherry on top is that the address will be automatically configured for your Thunderbird!

To do this, simply install the last version of Mozilla Thunderbird (you can download it here if needed).

Once installed, when you create your email address, it will offer you a personalized email address based on your first and last name, which you would have previously entered. The difference is that the .ME registry and Gandi will offer you the domain name for free for one year starting from the creation date!

This exceptional offer is only valid until December 31st 2012, and only via Thunderbird!

Note: only one .ME per person will be offered. In the case of an abuse of this offer, all of the domains will be deleted and the account will be blocked.

 

Update: This promotion is currently available only in limited areas. If you end up with a charge listed for the domain you select, you are not in an area where the promotion is valid. 

To give you a little more time to adapt, we have left the old version of Gandi's website accessible at the following address: http://v3.gandi.net

Of course, all the operations that you could do on the old version will work on the new :)

Also, if you are still a little bit lost, despite our efforts to not totally mess-up the interfaces, you can continue to perform all your operations on the old version of the website. We will keep it in place for 2 to 3 weeks, so that you will have enough time to become used to the new site ;)

Finally, if you find bugs, things that dont quite work well, anomalies, or you would simply like to give us some feedback, please feel free to write to feedback@gandi.net

Not many of you are still using it, and it is no longer really compatible with modern web browsers, so we have decided to stop using the http://mail.gandi.net interface, in favor of the RoundCube interface available at http://webmail.eu.com

If you are still using the old webmail (e.g. http://webmail.example.com), we are going to migrate the DNS configuration of your domain to RoundCube (new domains have been pointing there already since Monday).


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SUMMARY: AT A GLANCE
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1. On trial: Site migration service
2. Hot expansion of your hard drives
3. New Linux distro available: OpenSUSE 12.1
4. Available at Gandi: .CO.ZA
5. French accent at Gandi? See .TEL
6. Promotions, promotions!
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Want to move a site from an old hosting provider to Gandi? Let us do it for you! Gandi is going to evaluate the option of offering a paid migration service. There 's a lot of variation in how sites are implemented, so in this first trial phase we are putting some limits on what can be migrated. Still, we think it's a great value! What else is new in hosting, you ask? How about hot drive size expansion! That's right, no restart to increase VPS drive size anymore. And speaking of hot, we are now serving up OpenSUSE 12.1 with 32 or 64 bits, so place your orders now! Want a side of domain names with that? We are offering .CO.ZA, and for a French twist, try an accentted .TEL domain! See our promotions this month, too. It's going to be a hot October!


1. On trial: Site migration service
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Why don't people move web hosts, even when they know that better performing and cheaper hosting (e.g. Gandi Simple Hosting) is available?Maybe it's the fact that there is work involved, that downtime is likely, or maybe we just don't want to bother with the DNS fiddling. In any case, many of us wait years to migrate.  

Some people do a lot of site migrations, and and completely comfortable with what's involved. Some of us have other things to do, like running a business, keeping up with the industry news, rewriting content for SEO, or other technical stuff that has nothing to do with where the web site is hosted. The task of migrating the web site just never makes top priority. That's when we could use a quick, efficiant service to move the site.  A service now offered by... Gandi!

In partnership with the unenigmatically named company, "Web Site Migration Service" Gandi can migrate your website for €50 ($65, or £45 excl. VAT). Gandi handles all the technical facilitation, billing, etc. You just give us access to your site, buy a Simple Hosting instance, and poof! Your site is moved for a fair price and no hassle.  
We are trying this out now, with some restrictions, so if you want to know more, check out this article.


2. Hot expansion of your hard drives
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Gandi VPS Cloud Hosting servers have long allowed you to grow existing disk volumes. Now, we can do it with no restart! That's right, you don't have to lose even the short time it takes for a Gandi Cloud VPS to restart to add space to a disk. The procedure is the same as always... minus a step! See this page for more information.


3. New Linux distro available: OpenSUSE 12.1
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Holy chameleons, Batman! We's got Open SUSE available for Gandi VPS Cloud servers. You can run OpenSUSE 12.1 servers in Europe or the USA, just by starting them up with the shares you buy. Choose your architecture (32 or 64 bit) and make some chameleons run!


4. Available at Gandi: .CO.ZA
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The official extension of South Africa, .CO.ZA is now available at Gandi to all, without restriction (except to minors!).  Create your .CO.ZA domain for 12.00€ ($15.00) / year, at A rates (6.00€ at E rates). If you want to know more about this extension, go here.


5. French accent at Gandi? See .TEL
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It's true, we do speak with a French accent here at Gandi. Now the .TEL domain extension does too, with support for French-language accented characters!
More info on French accents in .TEL (in French, no less) is here.


6. Promotions, promotions!
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This month, .CA extensions are in prime position on Gandi's menu! No wonder, when they are priced at 33% off for a year's registration, or 9.20 €  ($10.60 excl. VAT) at A rates. If you always wanted to show your loyalty to Canada, you have until the end of October to do it for 33% off! More on this here.

Until the end of the year, you can transfer .COM and .NET domains to Gandi for less! 6.45€ ($8.50) will get your .COM domain to Gandi (isn't that where it belongs, anyway?) and adds a year to it's registration, too! More on this promo here.

And new this month, we are taking things to a new level. The second level... of domains! The good people at CentralNic have made it possible for us to offer .CN.COM, .GB.COM, .GB.NET, .GR.COM, .HU.COM, .QC.COM, .SE.COM, .SE.NET, and .ZA.COM all for just 5.00 € ($6.00 before VAT) for one-year, new registrations.  This promo will run till the end of the year!


Continuing Promotions...

The Colombian extension, .CO is still just 13.00 € ($16.50 before VAT) for one year creations at A rates. That's half off! All rate levels are discounted until the end of October (more on this).

Going East? .ASIA is €5.00  ($5.00 before VAT), in all rates, for new one-year registrations, instead of 18.00 € ($25.00). This price is not valid for transfers and renewals, so get creative!

Finally, send us your complaints, gripes, compliments, stock tips, suggestions,  pics, (especially any photos you take of of the Gandi logo in the wild), to newsletter-en@gandi.net. We want to hear from you!

Email making you feel old? Join us on facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/GandiBar
or follow @gandibar on Twitter and stay up to date with our latest news!

Sincerely,
Nicolas Lhuillery
Head of Product
Gandi

PS: If you would like to get our newsletter by email, please change the option in your account.

What is Gandi's Mail Pack ?

 


When you purchase a domain name at Gandi, you get 5 free email mailboxes, 1,000 forwarding addresses, and an unlimited number of aliases with a combined total of 1GB of storage.

If you need more than that, you can subscribe to Gandi's Mail Pack. for $1.30 excl. VAT per month (A rates). This subscription immediately grants you an unlimited number of mailboxes, additional storage space and additional features:

  • Ability to use a wildcard in your alias addresses
  • Access to an automatic out-of-office reply

For more details on setting up and using Gandi's Mail Pack features, please see our Mail Pack wiki entry. http://wiki.gandi.net/en/mail

If you already have several Mail Packs at Gandi, we have added a new page that lets you see them all at a glance (domain, expiration date, auto-renew status and a management link):

 

This was in high demand by our customers and so we hope that it will now help you manage your Mail Packs more easily!

An email is currently being sent to people that is actually an attempt by unscrupulous individuals to steal your Gandi login codes and probably your domain names.

We would like to take this moment to remind you of basic security precautions you need to take when you receive an email that asks you to click on a link:

1. Never click on a link in an email
2. Really, don't click on links in emails
3. If you want to click on the link nevertheless, verify that the destination address that displays in your web browser is correct (it will appear green for gandi.net), and don't just look at the beginning of the link, look at the whole thing, as phishing links will often include the real name of the site at the beginning in order to trick you.

Here is an example of the phishing email that is currently being sent out:

Subject:     [GANDI] The login ip to your account Gandi has been changed
Date:     Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:52:08 -0800
From:     Support Gandi
To:     xxxxxx



Hello,


Warning! The login ip to your account Gandi has been changed! We have
seen that the ip may change so please re-login to the site
To make sure the safety of your membership..

Login To Your Account

http://gandi.net.[...].dk/login.htm

Thank you for your confidence.

cordially.

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GANDI - http://www.gandi.net

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