Newsletter June 2022
Welcome to the June 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: the pros and cons of a static website. Also, our video of the month highlights how to add two-factor authentication to your Gandi Mail Roundcube account, along with other popular Gandi news this month, three things we’re reading, a release note, and as always, our promo roundup and events calendar.
Happy reading!
This month:
Pros and cons of a static website and how to get one
Video of the month: How to protect your email account with two-factor authentication?
3 things we’re reading this month
Release note: what’s new in Gandi’s interface?
Pros and cons of a static website and how to get one
While WordPress is undeniably the most popular CMS for creating and bringing a custom website online, the use of many plugins can also cause your site’s performance to deteriorate. The solution? A static version of your WordPress site.
Turn your WordPress site into a static website
Video of the month
How to protect your email account with two-factor authentication
What if we could help you secure your Gandi Mail Roundcube mailbox? With two-factor authentication (2FA) activated on your account, you’ll have to provide not just a password but an additional code generated by a special app in order to access your email account. This simple method adds a crucial layer of security and helps you truly protect your data online so that your private communications stay that way!
Watch our step-by-step video (5:41)
Other popular news this month
5 essential open-source enterprise tools
Document sharing, project planning, videoconferencing, and more—there are plenty of collaborative tools for businesses, but to maintain control over your data, it can be worth it to use open-source alternatives to the proprietary options. Check out our round up of the most popular, collaborative enterprise tools and their open-source versions and take back control of your data.
Secure your business’s collaborative work
Email is dead. Long live email!
Instant messaging, social media, etc. These days there are many options for messaging someone over the internet, but have they managed to kill email, the king of internet messaging? Not quite yet …
Our favorite tools for effective news monitoring
The internet is our encyclopedia. One that’s so full that, to monitor everything new effectively, it has become essential to sort through the most relevant content rather than go looking for it. We have collected different suggestions for tools and their open-source alternatives to help you implement effective news monitoring.
Save time on your news monitoring
3 things we’re reading this month
WordPress 6.0 now available
The latest WordPress update, “Arturo,” was released on May 24, 2022. See for yourself the new features for users and developers.
All about that trailing dot
The trailing dot is the dot at the end of, for example, a domain name. The problem is that this dot can mean different things in different contexts. In this post, a curl maintainer explains what this trailing dot can mean, and how curl has historically treated the trailing dot and why.
It might seem like minutiae to some, but so much can depend on one little dot (or its absence).
Rethinking MVPs
An MVP, or minimal viable product, is one of those terms that’s become popular enough to be misunderstood. Specifically, as the headline says, an MVP is not minimal, viable, nor a product, really. Beyond semantics, though, this piece touches on the essential purpose of creating an MVP—as the article says: the minimum you need to do to test a hypothesis.
This approach to thinking about MVPs focuses in on what’s important for maximizing the benefit of building one while minimizing the cost. It’s all too common to miss this and end up with an MVP that’s not as useful or as cost-conscious as it should be.
Release note: what’s new in our interface this month?
- Cool: more detailed permissions on VPS configuration templates
- Good: filters added on SSL certificate lists
- Great: access a domain name’s activity stream
- Best: Several ergonomic improvements
Gandi supports
Tired of the iOS/Android duopoly? Check out UBports
UBports makes it possible to port Ubuntu on a smartphone, and they need your support! This initiative fits right in with Gandi’s DNA, where open source and data privacy are standard bearers, is sure to charm you.
Promo roundup
Last chance
- .blog — $9.99 (normally $38.35 per year)
- .gay — $12.00 (normally $47.87 per year)
- .ink — $12.00 (normally $31.90 per year)
- .io — $37.00 (normally $55.00 per year)
- .mx — $10.50 (normally $48.00 per year)
- .org — $9.99 (normally $17.20 per year)
- .tattoo — $12.00 (normally $57.40 per year)
- .wiki — $12.00 (normally $31.90 per year)
Year-long promotions
- .art —$6.99 (normally $17.44 per year)
- .cloud — $10.99 (normally $24.29 per year)
- .eu — $6.00 (normally $15.00 per year)
- .link — $8.00 (normally $13.66 per year)
- .me — $6.00 (normally $26.40 per year)
- .shop — $3.00 (normally $45.95 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 based on pricing Grid A.
Events Calendar
| Past | Upcoming |
| May 17–18, 2022 — Domain Pulse 2022 (Bonn, Germany)
May 27, 2022 — Price increase on .tw domain names May 30, 2022 — Price increase on .ai domain names June 1, 2022 — .ngo and .ong bundle split |
June 1–3, 2022 — Kernel Recipe, (Paris, France)
June 7–9, 2022 — International Cybersecurity Forum (Lille, France) June 27–July 1 — Hack in Paris (Paris, France) |