Newsletter July 2017

This past month has been one of rejuvenation. As we continue the process of reimagining our site with #gandiv5, everything that felt like immutable constants is being reexamined and reconsidered, even when it doesn’t have to do directly with our site. The result is that what was old is now suddenly, well, new again.

The way our site handles rights management for domains is one example. With #gandiv5, we greatly improved our site’s capacity to accommodate diverse organizational structures, and this month we walked through a relatively simple, fairly common example. We also took an opportunity to revisit an old feature that may nonetheless feel new to some: automatic renewals.

And then, with a change in our relationship to the respective registries, we’ve been able to re-introduce the TLDs .ie and .gl outside of the context of our Corporate services program. A registry migration of .io also produced some new rules to that TLD as well.

Finally, as always, we peaked ahead to new TLD releases and rounded up the many promos starting in July (and those that are ongoing).

Summary

1. #gandiV5 Organizations and teams

With #gandiv5, we’ve been rethinking and reimagining a lot of the core principles of how our domain name registration and management platform works. We’ve long felt the rights management structure in v4 of our site based on whois contact roles (with only four definable roles: Owner, Admin, Tech, and Billing) was cumbersome. That was one thing we set out to improve.

In the new version of our site, your options for rights management at Gandi are wider than ever. To illustrate what’s new, we walked through a common scenario now simplified with the new rights management system.

Come walk through an example with us

2. Don’t miss an expiration date with automatic renewal

Missing a domain expiration date can be embarrassing or damaging. But there’s a way to ensure you don’t miss an expiration date ever with Gandi’s automatic renewal. Activating this feature along with keeping a balance on your prepaid account will help prevent ever having to experience downtime due to a domain that hasn’t been renewed.

Find out how to never miss an expiration date again

3. Two not-so-new TLDs available

This June, Gandi obtained direct accreditation with two ccTLD (country-code TLD) registries whose domains have long been available at Gandi only with a Corporate subscription.

Now, we are pleased to say that .ie domains and .gl domains are available at Gandi without needing a corporate subscription. All the other registry-specific rules still apply, but these domains are now, notably, available to those with individual handles.

Find out more about .ie | Get the DL on .gl

4. New Rules for .io domains

On June 10, .io underwent a technical migration. For the most part, everything stays the same, but some new rules have been added, especially when it comes to renewing a domain name. Particularly if that renewal comes late.

Read the full description of the new .io rules

5. TLD Release calendar

As was the case last month, this month is another slow month for TLD releases, with .africa having already entered the Landrush phase July 4. Next up: .boston enters the Sunrise phase August 1. Keep track below:

Tuesday July 4:
.africa (Landrush)

Tuesday August 1:
.boston (Sunrise)

Or follow new TLD releases on Gandi News.

6. Promo Roundup

It’s time to round up this month’s promos. Saddle up!

Between two registries offering promos on a large swath of their TLD portfolios, over 24 TLDs came on promo on July 1:

Many more are still on promo now that were before:

Round up our promos yourselves in their new habitat: the promos category page on our new news site.

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That’s all the old things made new this month. Actually, we do have one more, which is to refresh the old saying sharing is caring by inviting you to share this newsletter by clicking the buttons at the top of this page (well, only if you care to that is).

Otherwise, feel more than free to contact us at feedback@gandi.net, on Twitter @gandibar or in the #gandi channel on Freenode. \o/

Sincerely,

Gandi.net

 

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