... only a matter of time before all DNS/name merchants end up being bought by Oracle - before ending up in the same hands stripped out of high margin customers ...
- in case this is not obvious - this is meant to be funny - I hope On Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 15:12 Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 02:00:58PM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > I wholly agree. I've used Gandi since the day we had to go through > > registrars. Did research for all of the original registrars, chose > > them, been with them every since. > > Thanks to all of you for the pointers to Gandi. I have > begun moving all my eggs to that basket, and hope all of > you will help me watch that basket. > > I was concerned that Gandi recently sold themselves: > > --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandi --- > > 2019: On 28 February, Gandi CEO Stephan Ramoin announced that private > > equity firm Montefiore Investments had acquired the company. > > ... so I looked into Montefiore Investments. They appear > to be a smallish "buy and hold forever" French investment > company, with a focus on assets with multi-generation > enduring value. I know of the breed; there are a few > quiet, non-flashy forever-investment groups in the US > who have endured for more than a century ... which is > nothing compared to some multi-century European outfits. > > There is no guarantee that Montefiore will be stable > forever, but I expect them to endure longer than I do, > unlike the founding team of Gandi, who will eventually > retire or die. > > The Gandi founders have made the best accomodation for > the future that I can imagine. Perhaps there are Swiss > or Swedish investment groups that are even more stable, > but the Gandi/Montefiore deal seems based on personal > trust and careful negotiation, difficult across borders. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
