Newsletter July 2022
Welcome to the July 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: email opt out, opt in, and double opt in. Our video of the month highlights how to activate two-factor authentication on your Gandi Mail SOGo account, along with other popular Gandi news this month, three things we’re reading, and more. Plus, as always, our promo roundup and events calendar.
Happy reading!
This month:
Does opt in really protect your personal data?
Video of the month: Is your SOGo webmail account secure?
Other popular articles in July
Three things we’re reading this month
Does opt in protect your personal data?
The security of your data on the internet is now enshrined in regulations such as Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Learn everything there is to know about opt in (explicit consent given by a user to receive communications from a business), opt out, and double opt in, best practices surrounding them, and how to maintain control over your personal data online.
Avoid getting your data collected online
Video of the month
Is your SOGo webmail account secure?
When you activate two-factor authentication (2FA) on your webmail account, you need to provide, in addition to a password, an additional code generated by a special application in order to log in to your email account. If a third party tries to access your account, even if they’ve managed to steal your password, they will still be blocked by this second layer of verification.
Watch our step-by-step tutorial
Other popular news in July
3 reasons to self host
Self-hosting your digital services enables you to maintain control over your data by hosting them on a machine that you control instead of a datacenter. Yunohost is an operating system that makes self-hosting easier and more secure.
Why install Yunohost on a Gandi VPS
How to improve your site’s search engine ranking for free!
Improving a website’s traffic and the sale of products and services requires visibility. Natural website ranking is comprised of the free techniques for optimizing and improving your website’s ranking in search engine ranking.
Improve your site’s visibility
What is an API?
You’ve probably already heard of the term “API,” but do you know what it means? Even if you don’t, you probably use them everyday without even knowing it.
Learn all there is to know about API!
Popular on our social media:
3 things we’re reading this month
Elementor acquires Strattic
In website hosting news, Elementor, whose website builder enables users to create drag-and-drop websites on WordPress has acquired Strattic, the all-in-one static WordPress hosting platform. This likely signals an integration of the two products, drawing from Elementor’s beginner-friendly interface and Strattic’s speedy and secure static hosting container approach.
Negative engineering: building for when things go wrong
This piece breaks engineering tasks into two categories: positive engineering, or all of the “productive” coding that goes into creating and delivering product, and negative engineering, all the “insurance” work that defends the other code from a myriad of possible failures. What’s more, it goes further to start thinking about developing that takes failure into account and adds positive features to overcome them.
Were web forms a mistake?
Of all the code and technology that has enabled the explosive growth of the internet, the <form> element, the piece of HTML code that enables visitors to a webpage to type data to be sent back to the website into a form, has perhaps been the most decisive in the development of the modern internet. This piece explores whether the creation of this seminal piece of code was a mistake.
True, many of the security, privacy, economic, and maybe even political issues the internet has wrought have stemmed from the humble <form>, but it’s also the source of a lot of the internet’s dynanism as well, and not just in an economic sense. Where would we be without the basic interactivity that a form provides?
Gandi supports AMAP Montrouge
AMAP Montrouge provides a civic model to support local production, while maintaining its independence with regards to other AMAPs (the French version of a CSA) in France.
Find out more about AMAP Montrouge
Promo roundup
Just released
- .blog — $8.00 (normally $38.35 per year)
- .gay — $3.50 (normally $47.87 per year)
- .ink — $3.50 (normally $31.90 per year)
- .tattoo — $3.50 (normally $57.40 per year)
- .wiki — $3.50 (normally $31.90 per year)
Year-long promotions
- .art —$3.50 (normally $6.99 per year)
- .cloud — $10.99 (normally $24.29 per year)
- .eu — $6.00 (normally $26.40 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.
Event Calendar
| Past | Upcoming |
| June 7–9, 2022 — International Cybersecurity Forum (Lille, France) | July 17-24, 2022 — Debian Conference, Prizren (Kosovo) |
| June 13–16, 2022 — ICANN75 Policy Forum (La Hague, Netherlands) | July 18, 2022 — Girls Can Code, Epita Strasbourg |
| June 27–July 1 — Hack in Paris (Paris, France) | July 20–21, 2022 — International Conference on Advances in Computer Science And Information Technology (Online) |