Newsletter February 2022
Each month, we deliver our best and most relevant articles from our news site, our YouTube channel, and beyond.
In this month’s newsletter: alternatives to WeTransfer, how to create an email address, cybersecurity best practices, listing all your subdomains, Terraform Gandi, three things we’re reading this month, the best new Gandi updates and features of 2021, Gandi Supports, and more!
This month:
- There are options besides WeTransfer
- How to create a professional, custom email address
- Other popular news this month
- Three things we’re reading this month
- Release note: the best of 2021
- Gandi Supports
- Promo roundup
- Calendar
There are options besides WeTransfer
“Error: attachment size exceeds the allowable limit” … Nothing is more frustrating than seeing this message when you go to send your email. To resolve this problem, the go-to solution for many users is to use the services of the US-based giant WeTransfer. There are, however, several European alternatives that are just as good, and emphasize protecting the privacy of your data.
Your Gandi domain name comes with a professional email address!
Did you know that for every domain name registered at Gandi, we provide 2 free email addresses with 3 GB of storage? The starting point for a professional online presence! An online identity has become essential for all businesses. Having a custom email address guarantees the credibility of your online business and earns you the confidence of internet users. Follow our guide to learn more about how to configure yours.
Other popular news in February
Five cybersecurity best practices to protect your business
As more business is done online, the cybersecurity of businesses is at greater risk. According to IFOP, 33% of all small- and medium-sized businesses have been impacted by a cyberattack in the last 12 months. A worrying reality, but one that can be mitigated by implementing a few best practices.
List all the subdomains of a domain name? Challenge accepted!
One of the greatest values of a domain name is that you can create an infinite number of subdomains. But from a security standpoint, the longer that list of subdomains, the greater your potential exposure to cybersecurity risks. Hence the usefulness in having an exact inventory. But how do you get one?
The first release of the community Terraform Gandi provider is out!
The go-gandi community has published the provider Terraform Gandi (v2.0.0) on the Terraform registry. This provider enables you to declaratively manage multiple Gandi products, such as domain name, email, LiveDNS, and web hosting, an innovation following the launch of the GandiCloud VPS in March 2021, based on OpenStack technology.
Three things we’re reading this month
The Log4j Bug Can’t Hurt WordPress – But There’s an Ongoing Attack That Can
As of December 10, more than 1.6 million WordPress sites have been under attack by cybercriminals exploiting a handful of vulnerabilities in certain plugins and themes. The irony is, the vast majority of the plugins and themes being exploited already have new versions avialable that patch the vulnerablities.
The Term Web3 Has Been Seized by the Crypto Market: An Internet Governance Perspective
Here’s another rejoinder in the ongoing debate over Web3. This one argues that the defining decentralized structure of the theoretical Web3 is inherently inefficient, making a blockchain-based web “more expensive, slower, and resource-intensive.”
If the underlying promise is to counter the centralization of tech monopolies like GAFAM, the author argues, this can be accomplished more simply with greater data portability and enforcement of privacy laws. Implicitly, that reduces the debate almost to an ideological level: are the problems of today’s centralized web best solved through greater monetization, making a market out of every online action, or through better regulation of the excesses of monopoly tech?
Google reveals ‘Topics’ cookie replacement, acknowledges FLoC was problematic
Google abandoned its controversial proposed FLoC cookie replacement in July and now favors a new plan. Called “Topics,” the new third-party cookie replacement anonymously tracks users. Here’s how it works: users’ browsers detect a user’s “areas of interest” when they visit sites with ads on them. Then, “Topics” will randomly select three of these to send to Google to determine future ad served.
Release note: the best of 2021’s updates to your Gandi interface
Did you miss any updates in 2021? Read ou retrospective of all the biggest improvements and updates we made to the Gandi interface this past year. Domain name management, email, and invoicing, but also a new Cloud hosting service, a new design for the Gandi website — our product teams were busy all year improving your experience as a user!
Gandi supports
Gandi supports the Fund for a Free Press
In an era when journalism is more and more online, the Fund for a Free Press helps independent media stay that way. Since 2019, this organization has been working to defend freedom of expression, press pluralism, and independent journalism.
Promo roundup
Quarterly promos
Six-month promos
- .blog — $9.99 (regular price $38.35 per year)
- .gay — $12.00 (regular price $47.87 per year)
- .ink — $12.00 (regular price $31.90 per year)
- .tattoo — $12.00 (regular price $57.40 per year)
- .wiki — $12.00 (regular price $31.90 per year)
Year-long promos
- .art — $6.99 (regular price $17.44 per year)
- .cloud — $10.99 (regular price $24.29)
- .eu — $6.00 (regular price $15.00 per year)
- .me — $6.00 (regular price $26.40 per year)
- 5 Radix domain endings (.tech, .site, .online, .store, .space) starting at $3.40
- 35 Donuts domain endings (including .email, .info, .solutions, .world) starting at $4.00
*all prices listed are in USD and based on pricing Grid A.
Calendar
| Past events | Upcoming events |
| January 14 — Price increase on .info, .mobi, and .pro | February 9 —General Assembly of the Francophone Python Association |
| January 25 — EAP for .day | March 7–10 — 73rd ICANN meeting (virtual) |
| February 1 — GoLive/General Availability for .day | March 30 — Price increase on .click |