. gandi sas type soci t par actions simplifi e founded 1999 ; 17 years ago 1999 headquarters paris france area served worldwide founder s pierre beyssac laurent chemla valentin lacambre key people stephan ramoin president nicolas lhuillery head of product gandi sas leland vandervort director technical operations gandi sas pascal bouchareine director r & d gandi sas thomas stocking vp us operations services domain name registration web hosting blog hosting service website www.gandi.net alexa rank 9131 january 2016 update 1 gandi sas gestion et attribution des noms de domaine sur internet management and allocation of domain names on the internet is a french company providing domain name registration web hosting and related services . the company s main office is in paris . 2 history edit gandi was founded as a domain registrar in march 2000 by valentin lacambre laurent chemla pierre beyssac and david nahmias . 2 in 2005 following internal struggles in management 3 ownership and management of gandi was sold to a team led by stephan ramoin formerly of multimania lycos 4 and investors joe white eirik pettersen co founders of the online website building service moonfruit and warren stephens . 5 in 2008 gandi launched a xen based vps cloud hosting service based on a system of shares and scalable resources that can be adjusted in real time . 6 in 2010 the company created a subsidiary in the us opening a data center in downtown baltimore phoenix arizona and business offices in san francisco california as well as creating a customer support center in the us which until then had been exclusively operated out of paris france at place de la nation . as of late 2011 gandi.net was the 25th largest registrar in terms of the number of domains registered . 7 on july 31 2014 amazon web services partnered with gandi and announced the ability to register domains directly through their route 53 service . 8 9 business model edit gandi does not advertise 10 relying primarily on word of mouth recommendations from existing customers . the company has a program to provide funds and or promotion to projects and organizations that meet its criteria of concrete open and alternative . 11 it uses and advocates for open source software 12 and since september 2010 has supported creative commons providing them with free domain registrations and renewals as well as vps services . 13 other projects that gandi supports include electronic frontier foundation students for free culture the spamhaus project debian dotclear paris web world wide fund for nature videolan adie canard pc international federation for human rights fidh demotix goodplanet jamendo in libro veritas arr t sur images le retour software freedom conservancy . 11 14 references edit internet portal gandi.net site overview . alexa internet . retrieved 2016 01 27 . a b domain names and vps cloud hosting who is gandi . gandi . retrieved 2014 02 08 . ramoin stephan 16 february 2006 . the how after the why part i . gandi bar . gandi . retrieved 26 april 2016 . it s the end of 2004 and i receive a telephone call from laurent chemla . he tells me that the shareholders aware of their differences and therefore their incapacity to make gandi evolve have taken the decision to sell . portrait of stephan ramoin president of gandi sas . gandi . retrieved 2014 02 08 . wendy . who is gandi and why should i care . www.gandibar.net . retrieved 2016 01 27 . why choose gandi for your hosting service power on demand . gandi . retrieved 2014 02 08 . largest icann registrars . webhosting.info . retrieved 2014 02 08 . http aws.amazon.com about aws whats new 2014 07 31 amazon route 53 announces domain name registration geo routing and lower pricing registering domain names using amazon route 53 amazon route 53 . docs.aws.amazon.com . retrieved 2016 01 27 . ryan 2010 09 07 . customer support at gandi evolution and future . gandi . retrieved 2014 02 08 . a b gandi supports alternative projects . gandi . retrieved 2014 02 08 . gandi github repository . retrieved 2014 02 08 . kinkade nathan 2010 09 13 . gandi.net supports cc . episode 0x3a fosdem 2013 foss code goes in and never comes out time index 1 00 00 . software freedom conservancy . 2013 04 03 . retrieved 2014 02 08 . v t e website management concepts overselling web document web content web content lifecycle web hosting service web server webmaster website governance web hosting control panels comparison alternc cpanel directadmin domain technologie control gnupanel h sphere i mscp interworx ispconfig kloxo kloxo mr plesk usermin webmin top level domain registries afilias centralnic cira donuts neustar ovh uniregistry verisign domain name managers and registrars ausregistry cz.nic cnnic denic dnpric.es dns belgium domainz dynadot enom gandi godaddy hover japan registry service melbourne it museum domain management association name.com namecheap network solutions net4 nic m xico register.com tucows uniregistry uk2 web.com web content 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