Newsletter January 2022
Happy new year and welcome to the January 2022 Gandi newsletter!
Each month, we deliver our best and most relevant articles from our news site, our YouTube channel, and beyond. In this month’s newsletter: Gandi’s v5 Public API is no longer in beta, how to install your free SSL certificate, which is better: Drupal or WordPress, optimizing your URL for SEO, and the different between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. Also check out new features and updates in our release note. From around the web this month, we’re reading about a less creepy way to track engagement, the implications of the Log4J vulnerability for open source, and the formation of IPv4 address markets.
Happy 2022 and happy reading!
- Gandi’s Public API is now in production!
- Install your free SSL certificate
- Which is better: Drupal or WordPress?
- Your website’s URL is important for SEO, and we’re here to prove it
- Finally learn the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com
- Release note: what’s new in our interface?
- What we’re reading this month
- Promo roundup
- Events calendar
Gandi’s Public API is now in production!
We closed out 2021 with a big achievement on our v5 Public API, which is no longer in beta and is now in production! Our Public API now has a Sandbox environment that enables you to test scripts, has expanded documentation, and is stable and ready to use.
Install your free SSL certificate!
Securing the exchange of data on your website is key to protecting your future users and improving your site’s reputation. When you register your domain name at Gandi, you get a free SSL certificate. In this three-minute video, we explain how to install your SSL certificate to secure communications between you and your users.
Which is better: Drupal or WordPress?
For building your website, you’ll first need to have the right tools. WordPress and Drupal are two heavyweights in the CMS market. We studied each of these according to 4 criteria: ease of use, customization, SEO, and security. Who will win?
Your website’s URL is important for SEO, and we’re here to prove it
You can’t leave anything to chance when it comes to optimizing your content for search engine ranking, and that applies as well to the web address of your webpages. A page’s URL is more than a title. It can have an impact on your ranking in search results, and shouldn’t be neglected as part of your SEO strategy.
Finally learn the difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com
If you’ve ever created a blog or a website you’ve probably ran into a particular dilemma: should you go to wordpress.org or wordpress.com? As is often the case, it depends … We explain why each of these two solutions exists, their relationship to each other, and their differences.
Release note: what’s new in our interface?
- Single-sign on activation
- “Rescue” mode for regaining control of your VPS servers
- PHP 8.1 now available on Simple Hosting instances
- Quickly access settings from the shop
3 stories we’re reading this month!
“Let’s kill cookies: a POC for a less creepy way to track engagement”
It seems that privacy protections like GDPR and CCPA may be in the process of slowly killing third party tracking cookies. But a clear alternative to cookies altogether that still provides data to website owners on how people are using their websites has yet to fully materialize.
In this piece, we see a proof-of-concept of how it might look to track engagement only with actual clicks and interactions and IP address sessions.
“Is open source broken?”
The biggest internet news story last month was the discovery of a vulnerability in the Log4J Java-based logging tool available from Apache. The vulnerability, dubbed Log4Shell, or officially CVE-2021-44228, is rated 10/10 in terms of severity.
This piece raises a key issue with the Log4shell vulnerability — that the Java library involved, Log4J, is an open source project with only three sponsors (there are more now), yet is central to key parts of internet infrastructure, including large corporations.
The problem is, essentially, that companies are dependent on useful open source software and don’t “pay forward” the cost of developing it. The problem is further exacerbated by software like Log4J ending up buried in several layers of dependencies.
The point? “Tip your bartender,” as the saying goes, or in open-source, sponsor maintainers of software essential to you.
“The formation of IPv4 address markets”
The limits of IPv4 were known very early on in the history of the internet. And yet, even in 2021 we have not managed a full transition to IPv6.
The result is that demand for IPv4 addresses continues, even though their supply is limited. This is a deep dive into how this simple fact developed and led to the formation of IPv4 markets, which exploded in value this past year.
Promo Roundup
Just released!
- .art — $6.99 for the first year (regular price $17.44 per year)
- .cloud — $10.99 for the first year (regular price $24.29 per year)
- .eu — $6.00 for the first year (regular price $15.00 per year)
- .ink — $12.00 for the first year (regular price $31.90 per year)
- .io — $37.00 for the first year (regular price $55.00 per year)
- .me — $6.00 for the first year (regular price $26.40 per year)
- .org — $9.99 for the first year (regular price $17.20 per year)
- .tattoo — $12.00 for the first year (regular price $57.40 per year)
- .wiki — $12.00 for the first year (regular price $31.90 per year)
*prices listed in USD in grid A
Check out all our promos on our website’s Promotions page
Calendar
Past |
Upcoming |
| December 1–25, 2021: The Gandi Advent Calendar | January 14, 2022: Price increase on .info, .mobi, and .pro |
| December 14, 2021: Sunrise release phase for .day begins | January 25, 2022: Early Access Period for .day begins |
| January 1, 2022: Price update on .io, .sh, .li, .ac, .ch, .wien | February 1, 2022: GoLive/General Availability for .day begins |