Newsletter May 2022
In this month’s newsletter, with Google asking former free Workspace account owners to pay up, we’re looking at how to free your online presence from Google using free and open-source alternatives. Also, our video of the month highlights how to add additional custom email addresses, 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:
How to free yourself from Google
Video of the month: How to buy an additional custom email address
3 things we’re reading this month!
Release note: what’s new in Gandi’s interface?
How to free yourself from Google
Google just moved the transition to subscription-only Workspace accounts from May 1 to June 1, 2022, meaning there’s still a few weeks left to take back control of your data by migrating to these alternatives to Google’s suite of applications.
Video of the month
How to buy an additional custom email address
Do you have a Google Workspace Gmail address that you’ll have to start paying for June 1? Did you know that with your Gandi domain name you get two free email addresses with 3 GB of storage for free? And if you need additional email addresses to provide accounts for your whole family or employees and contractors, they’re just $0.40 per month, with unlimited aliases and email forwarding. In this tutorial, find out how to add additional custom email addresses to your Gandi account.
Other popular news for May!
The magic of URLs: what happens behind the scene
There’s nothing more mundane than entering a URL into a browser and having the site you want appear on your screen in less than a second. Behind the scenes, though a succession of important steps takes place connecting you to the content you’re looking for.
Discover more about this daily, often overlooked act
12 trust signals for your e-commerce website
Do you manage an e-commerce website or are you planning to launch one? If you’re concerned about not being up to speed on the subtleties of e-commerce in 2022, we’ve listed out the 12 essential trust signals you can use to improve customer experience on your e-commerce website.
3 things we’re reading this month
1. Questioning the design hierarchy of needs
The concept of a “Design Hierarchy of Needs” is a common trope in design theory based on Maslow’s famous hierarchy of needs. But do criticisms of the latter apply to the former?
2. Exodus to Mastodon
Following the announcement this month that he would buy Twitter, Elon Musk fans are excited by promises to roll back nearly a decade’s worth of moderation policies, and open source the Twitter algorithm. Others are not so thrilled, including 30,000 new users who signed up for open source Twitter alternative Mastodon following the announcement.
3. Tech bans, Ukraine, and dissidents
Beyond the headline, this piece delves into a bigger question about big tech dominance in an age of global conflict. Specifically, it notes that big #tech firms have the power of small countries, but in the face of the situation in Ukraine have acted irresponsibly with that power but weighing decisions to block access based on public perception, not on the effectiveness of the policy.
Release note: what’s new on our interface this month?
- VPS: view your resource consumption in hours and the corresponding cost
- New Linux distribution available on VPS: NixOS
- Web forwarding updates
- Creating a volume from a snapshot
- Adding recipients of pdf invoices
Check out everything that’s new
Promo roundup
Just released
- .dev — $11.50 (normally $16.39 per year)
- .foundation — $7.99 (normally $41.21 per year)
- .mx — $10.50 (normally $48.00 per year)
Quarterly promos
- .blog — $9.99 (normally $38.35 per year)
- .io — $37.00 (normally $55.00 per year)
- .org — $9.99 (normally $17.20 per year)
Year-long promos
- .art —$6.99 (normally $17.44 per year)
- .cloud — $10.99 (normally $24.29 per year)
- .eu — $6.00 (normally $15.00 per year)
- .gay — $12.00 (normally $47.87 per year)
- .ink — $12.00 (normally $31.90 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)
- .tattoo — $12.00 (normally $57.40 per year)
- .wiki — $12.00 (normally $31.90 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.
Calendar of events
Past events |
Upcoming events |
| April 28 — TRex blocking products deactivated by Trademark Clearinghouse April 26–28 — ICANN’s Latin American and Caribbean Domain Names Week |
May 17–18 — Domain Pulse 2022 (Bonn, Germany) May 27 — Price increase on .tw domain names |
| April 30 — Price increase on .sexy domain names | May 30 — Price increase on .ai domain names |