Newsletter April 2018

The first three months of 2018 have been especially busy, particularly with the finalization of the migration from our old data center, FR-SD2, to our new data centers.

This migration, completed mid-March, ended up disrupting several of our core services, including Simple Hosting, Gandi Mail, and Gandi Site, severely testing the patience of both you our customers as well as our staff. If you’d like to know more, we’d suggest checking our blog for detailed posts on each of the incidents we faced as a result of this migration.

In the meantime, on the interface side of things, we’ve continued with our planned improvements and upgrades to Gandi v5, notably with the addition of preset DNS zone templates and DNS server configurations, allowing you to easily configure multiple domains with an identical DNS configuration. We haven’t forgotten about the resellers! If that’s you, you can expect us to release new dedicated features tailored to your specific needs soon.

1. Apply for your .app, now in Sunrise

Pre-registration of .app domains in all phases is open!

At long last, .app is being rolled out in the Sunrise phase. Domains can be registered during the Sunrise phase – from March 29 through May 1, 2018 – if you have a trademark registered with the TMCH or you can pre-register your .app domain for the upcoming GoLive phase, opening May 8. Read more

2. Gandi Corporate News

Following changes made by the registry DotIE, there are now new rules for registering .ie domains.
We’re here to help with using your domain name in China.
A little promo until May 16 for the .boats launch this spring.

3. Gandi featured on Yubico blog

After implementing Univeral Two-Factor on Gandi v5 late last year, we’ve been featured in Yubico’s blog. Yubico is a leading provider of U2F keys. Securing your Gandi account with U2F keeps your domains safe and if you use a physical key like YubiKey, you won’t have to reset your two-factor authentication when you lose your phone.

4. The Pocketbook guide to domain names

A couple new entries in our ongoing Pocketbook guide to domain names series have provided the basics in how to choose a domain with good SEO and how to delegate management rights to a technical expert.

5. Promo roundup

We rounded ourselves up a helping of promos this month. Have a look-see:

As always, you can find all currently running promos on the “Promotions” page of the Gandi News site.

If you have any comments or suggestions regarding our newsletter, please feel free to contact us at newsletter-en@gandi.net. Of course your can always reach us on Twitter, Facebook or on the #gandi channel on freenode.

Until next time,
Andrew

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