Newsletter May 2020
As lockdowns continue, life is nonetheless moving along and we’re all adjusting to the new normal. Helping out your friends, keeping your accounts safe, and a glimmer of hope in the fight for a free internet—that’s what’s in store in our newsletter this month. Happy reading and above all else, please take care.
The Latest Gandi News:
- Introducing Refer a Friend, our customer referral program
- Best practices for securing your accounts online
- Don’t touch my .org!
- Some useful information about COVID-19
- Promo Roundup
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1. Introducing Refer a Friend, our customer referral program
We owe our reputation to the word of mouth recommendations our customers give us everyday. So in order to thank you for your loyalty and enthusiasm for Gandi, we’ve launched Refer a Friend, our new referral program where both the person referring and the one being referred are rewarded! Invite a friend to check out Gandi and for every purchase, your friend will get 6 months of free hosting on a Simple Hosting S+ instance and a 20% off discount on the purchase or transfer o a domain name. On your side, you’ll get a €5 coupon to use on any product we offer. And, spoiler alert, when you invite your third friend, you’ll get a special Refer A Friend collectible t-shirt sent right to your door.
Do you love Gandi? Let the world know and get rewarded!
2. Best practices for securing your account
The past months have seen an intense increase in adoption of digital technology, causing a windfall for those who would seek to take advantage of the uncertainty of the crisis through various tricks and fraud. In the face of cybercrime, securing online accounts is more important than ever. Here are three pieces of advice we have to help keep yourself safe:
3. Don’t touch my .org
After several months of uncertainty and and demands raised by different groups, organizations online were successful.
While .org was this close to changing hands, to the benefit of Ethos Capital, ICANN, the international institution that regulates domain names, has officially rejected the sale as of April 30!
A small, but important step for the Internet. Even though this is probably not the end of the story, it’s a rare glimmer of hope for the future of non-profits online.
Read our summary of the whole affair
4. Some useful information about COVID-19
As some countries and some states begin to open back up, we are aware that the crisis and its consequences will continue to be felt at least in the near future. As such, we’re making a point to keep you up to date about how the crisis might impact your domain names and hosting and to propose alternative solutions to keep your business running.
In our special report, you can find out about how we’re giving back, as well as special measures taken by registries that you can benefit from.
5. Promo roundup
Here are the different current promos to support your projects:
Launch your online business thanks to .link and .click. Registration rates are more than 60% off on each of these domains.
Finally, last call to register your .org and 17 domains from the registry Afilias.
All our promos can also be found on our News site.
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