Newsletter June 2018

After starting off the year on the recurring theme of migration, this past month we’ve changed gears to GDRP. Which is not to say that’s the only thing we’ve been up to.

The Latest Gandi News:

1. Deployment of Gandi Cloud on #gandiv5
2. HTTP/2 on Simple Hosting
3. Gandi V5 for Resellers now in Beta
4. New TLD releases: .app, .icu, and .llc
5. Promo Roundup

Privacy, whois, and GDPR

GDPR privacy rules impact the whois

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), went into effect this Friday, May 25, 2018. This new European regulation grants new rights to individuals related to the processing of their personal data and involves changes in the manner with which we collect, save, and share your data, notably your personal data as displayed in the Whois. Read more

1. Deployment of Gandi Cloud on #gandiv5

If you’ve been waiting for Gandi Cloud products to be supported on our new site, get ready: we’ve started deploying the necessary features to support this service. For more information, check out this article.

2. HTTP/2 on Simple Hosting

We also recently deployed some updates to our Simple Hosting service, including support for HTTP/2, TLS1.3, and new caching features, all of which promise to improve performance on your websites.

Read all about it in our article about the recent update to our Web Accelerator.

3. Gandi V5 for Resellers now in Beta

Another long-awaited piece of news, we’ve recently launched the first tests of the #gandiv5 interface for resellers, thanks to the many numerous feautres deployed progressively since the initial launch of our new platform. Speaking of which, we’re currently looking for resellers willing to beta test some soon-to-be-released features. If you’re interested, fill out this form with your Gandi reseller handle.

4. New TLD releases: .app, .icu, and .llc

It’s been a bit quiet when it comes to TLD releases lately, but in this past month, we saw three new TLDs released:

• The TLD for everything app-releated, .app entered the GoLive phase on May 8. When it first opened for registration, .app surpassed 100,000 registrations in barely 24 hours.
• The I-see-you TLD, .icu, also entered the GoLive phase this month, on May 29. Not only that, but the first year of your .icu domain is just $2.50.
• And .llc entered the Sunrise phase on June 5. You can already submit your registration for the other two phases and we’ll send it when it enters the phase of your choice.

5. Promo Roundup

And to round things off, here’s a roundup of promos running this month:

That about wraps it up for June. We just wanted to mention one last thing. If you happen know anyone in Paris or Taipei who may be interested in working for Gandi, send them our list of job openings! We’re always looking to grow and improve our teams.

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