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   Nicolas Martyanoff (galdor@emacs.ch)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 18:50:22 JST Nicolas Martyanoff

   I spent 30min entertaining the idea of building a no-BS european registrar following the merger of Gandi. Then I read about ICANN requirements. Got it. This is why there are so few options on the market.

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     Nicolas Martyanoff (galdor@emacs.ch)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 18:50:12 JST Nicolas Martyanoff

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     • Alexander Kamiński

     @xlii Most regitrars out there are just hosting companies with domain management on the side. Most of the time you get a crappy interface, limited security, zero or bad support…

     Gandi is an outlier: it is mostly centered around domains (they have diversified), everything about their website is simple and practical, and they have excellent support. They have built a reputation around these values.

     They have merged with an entity which is simply not a tech company. Gandi's CEO will become *non executive* director. History is full of stories like this one, and everyone knows how it will end up.

     Porkbun (and others) has a similar reputation, but it is US based.

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     Alexander Kamiński (xlii@emacs.ch)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 18:50:20 JST Alexander Kamiński

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     @galdor I was surprised by your opinion of few options. I feel like every burger shop around the corner tries to sell me domains.

     https://www.icann.org/en/accredited-registrars lists 2652 around the globe. There are some countries that have only 1, but bigger ones have more, e.g. UK has 25, France 16, Germany 24.

     I have products on Gandi and hadn't heard about TWS before. Should I be worried?

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     Louis (louis@emacs.ch)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 18:50:24 JST Louis

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     • Alexander Kamiński

     @xlii Re: terminal-based community, did you mean: https://sdf.org/ ?

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     Alexander Kamiński (xlii@emacs.ch)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 18:50:25 JST Alexander Kamiński

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     @galdor It's a song of ages: Die young as an unsuccessful startup or live long enough to get acquired by YourFavoriteBusinessUmbrellaCorp®

     Linode was acquired by Akamai lately too.

     But on the other hand we have Mastodon, I've read about some terminal-based community which sounded fun but I forgot the name, Emacs is still developed, so some good things do stay around.