Newsletter September 2016
| SUMMARY: AT A GLANCE | |
 1. Update: Price and rule change for .fi |
 2. Wizishop: .shop’s ambassador to France |
 3. Recently-delegated TLDs |
 4. Gandi Events |
 6. TLD release calendar |
 7. Promo roundup |
This September is all about reaching out, giving back, helping out, and opening up for us.
This month, the floodgates are opening for .fi as the rules change to allow non-Finnish registrants. And we’ve got a promotion on .fi domains to help all you non-Finns out there get your feet in the door. Gandi’s also helping .shop build a bridge to France by sponsoring Wizishop‘s participation in the registry’s Pioneer Program, we partner with Kernel Recipes to give back to the Linux community and we’re hosting a meetup based around user-experience testing in our San Francisco offices. And as always, we look at the TLD releases this month and a whole slew of great promos, many of which lasting only until the end of the month.
Update: Price and rule change for .fi
Historically, .fi domains have only been open to Finnish residents and companies, but as of 3:00 AM PDT on September 5, .fi will bust wide open for anyone and everyone. The .fi TLD has a lot of good options, too …
To lighten the load on anyone who wants to give a .fi domain a shot and to celebrate the new found .fi-dom, we’re also running a promotion on new .fi domains.
Find out all the details | Back to top
Wizishop: .shop’s ambassador to France
The release of the new TLD .shop is a little bit more special than the typical nTLD release. That’s because one of our long-time partners and resellers, Wizishop, who run an e-commerce platform, have been selected to participate in .shop‘s Pioneer Program.
Gandi supported their application and we’re proud they were selected to .shop‘s “ambassador to France.” We even did a press release to make the announcement that much more official.
Read the full press release | Back to top
Recently-Delegated TLDs
As for the bleeding edge of the new TLD program, there are still a lot of Brand TLDs being delegated right now, but we also found four somewhat controversial TLDs that were quietly delegated this past month, and one in particular that took a rocky road to get there.
Follow the drama in full | Back to top
Gandi Events
We won’t be in Peru this month, but we will be here in our San Francisco offices hosting the UX speed dating meetup group. Of course, this is a great opportunity to get feedback on your latest dev work, if you’ve never been, or the latest patches, updates or more if you have been.
On the other side of the pond, we are a proud partner once again this year of Kernel Recipes, happening this month in Paris from September 28 through 30. It’s already full but you can still follow the live tweet and see presentations online on the event site.
Get more information about the UX meetup | Learn about Kernel Recipes | Back to top
TLD release Calendar
It’s a quiet month for TLD releases, once again, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less exciting. Here are this month’s new TLD releases (and the phase they’ll be entering):
Thursday September 1:
.shop (Landrush)
Wednesday September 14:
.games (Landrush)
Wednesday September 21:
.games (GoLive)
Thursday September 22:
.makeup (Sunrise)
Monday September 26:
.shop (GoLive)
Wednesday September 28:
.shopping (GoLive)
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Stay tuned for updates and, of course, for next month’s releases.
Promo Roundup
And not to bury the lede too much, but if September is anything this year it’s promo month. We’ve wrassled up the best of them and brought them straight to you, still kicking, including the elusive only in September promos, running exclusively September 1 through 30:
Only in September:
.uk one dollar off multi-year registrations and renewals
.mx $16.00
.global $20.00
.club $6.72 (50% off)
Also ending September 30:
.fi $13.50 (see the article above)
Starting September 1:
Premium .online, .press, .store, .tech, .website on sale
.barcelona $25.00 through October 31
.link $4.50 through November 30
.photo $5.00 through November 30
.brussels,.vlaanderen $5.00 through October 31
.audio, .hiphop, .guitars $9.03, $12.84 , and $16.22 through November 30
Ongoing promotions:
.store $7.99 per year in GoLive through December 31
.stream $2.00 per year in GoLive
.me $14.40 through December 31
.accountant, .bid, .cricket, .date, .download, .faith, .loan, .party, .racing, .review, .science, .trade, .webcam, .win $2.00 per year through December 31
.live, .studio, .video 50% off through December 31
.online, .press, .website, .site, .host, .space, .pw, .tech on promo through December 31
.tech, .online, .site renewals 50% off through December 31
.xyz $3.99 per year through December 31
.black, .blue, .pink, .red, .lgbt, .kim, .shiksha, .poker, .pro, .info, .mobi, .移动 50% off until December 31 (previously June 30)
.gdn $1.50 until until December 31
So that’s our month of reaching out, sponsoring, partnering and helping. But maybe you want to reach out to us? Or maybe we can help you in some other way? Either way, let us know. Drop us a line. Tweet us @gandibar, email us at feedback@gandi.net, on Facebook, G+, or contact us on the #gandi channel on Freenode. \o/
Sincerely,
Gandi.net
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