We are currently experiencing routing anomalies via our Paris transit providers.

Currently traffic from the internet to Gandi which uses our IP transit connections (as opposed to peering) is only visible via our connections in the US.  As a result, European customers accessing Gandi via our transit providers will be experiencing increased latency.

We are working with our transit providers to resolve the issue.

Note that paths following our peering connections are not impacted by this issue.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Update:  16:13 CEST (14:13 GMT) -- The issue has been resolved.

We are currently experiencing an incident on a storage unit.

The situation should be resolved shortly.  In the meantime, please do not attempt to restart your server. 

We apologise for any inconvenience.

EDIT : 11:08 AM CEST : end of incident.

EDIT : 11:27 AM CEST : the problem is back, we working on it.

EDIT : 11:52 AM CEST : problem solved.

Following the 9th validation yesterday, ICANN has accepted 341 new extensions.

It is now certain that these extensions will be live before the end of 2013 and 2014.

As a reminder, if you want to participate in the SUNRISE period in order to protect your brand, you must first register it with the validation organization, TMCH, for which Gandi is accredited.

Below is the list of extensions that were validated (that we are offering in pre-reservation):

ads, analytics, app, art, auction, auto, baby, basketball, bid, bike, blog, bom, broadway, business, buy, bzh, cab, cal, camera, career, cars, center, church, city, clothing, cloud, codes, coupon, data, deal, democrat, desi, diet, docs, dog, dot, durban, eco, email, energy, equipment, estate, film, fire, fishing, flowers, food, furniture, gay, green, guide, guru, help, helsinki, hiv, holdings, hosting, hotel, how, immobilien, insurance, investments, land, lat, lifestyle, lighting, live, management, menu, mobile, news, now, online, paris, party, pictures, play, poker, prod, radio, red, room, rugby, ruhr, safety, salon, school, silk, singles, site, soy, sport, study, surgery, systems, talk, tech, thai, theater, trading, uno, ventures, vip, voyage, webcam, wedding, wiki

We will be performing preventive maintenance on two hosting storage units on 21 May 2013 at 21:30 UTC (23:30 CEST).

Affected customers may experience up to 15 minutes of disruption to their server disks.  Those customers likely to be affected will receive a notice by email.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

An attacker is trying to target Gandi's Simple Hosting services with a distributed denial of service. Our teams are mitigating the attack. Service speed may be affected. 

Update 19:25 CEST We filtered a web hos who was slow to respond to our requests to stop the attackers. The rest of the world can use Simple Hosting normally again. 

We are encountering some technical problems with some Simple Hosting instances. Our team is working on fixing the issue.

Please do not try to restart your instances. We will provide more information on this incident here.

15:20 CEST : some virtual machine disks were impacted

15:40 CEST : the problem is fixed, the situation will slowly be returning to normal for the affected virtual machines

We are encountering some problems with an IaaS storage unit. Please do not try to restart your machines. We will provide more information on this below.

11:55 : the service is now operating in degraded mode. We will need to change a piece of equipment.

For the entire month of May 2013, the registry is having a promotion that will let you create .XXX domains at the same price as .COM domains.

This promo is valid for domain name creations from 1 to 10 years!

A good occassion for some of you to protect your trademark, and for others, to launch into the pornographic website business :)

.XXX will will therefore only cost $15.50 (£10.50, or €12.54) excl. VAT per year under A rates, which is a savings of more than 80% (the regualar price for .XXX is $80.00/£57.50/€65.00)!

Want to register a .XXX?

We experience a high delay on one web accelerator plugged on the SimpleHosting instances.

Our technical team is investigating currently.

The PaaS/SimpleHosting instances are running well. Do not reboot your instances in the meantime please.

UPDATE 12.30 : it was related to a DoS, coming from one of our instance. Sorry for the inconvenience this issue may have caused to you.

A major change in our customer habits is coming: payment on demand.