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Gandi (https://www.gandi.net/), one of the most revered registrar (at the dawn of the millenium, they broke the registrar cartel (https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandi_(entreprise)&oldid=117353148#cite_note-2) and today are considered the most reliable when it comes to privacy protection (https://gun.io/blog/secure-your-domain-where-is-safe-to-register-a-domain-name/)), is now accepting bitcoin.

https://i.imgur.com/8JRNSsI.png

It seems to not be that much popular for the moment: only 0.3 bitcoin (https://blockchain.info/address/1LdyfRZC8ygxaEuQPmasMZdufd9DjNEWxZ) of payment (I did not pay before so I assume the same address is used by several accounts)

I just renew one of my website (defisfantastiques.fr) with bitcoin payment. It works.
Maybe one day they'll accept monero :)

It is good to hear such news.
Widely accepting bitcoin will lead finally to accept all the altcoins one day.
Now the question is when this day will come?  :)

It's always nice to hear that another service starts using Bitcoin. Altoins will be noticed by such services when Bitcoin will come into the mainstream. And this is the question - when this will happen? ;)

Altcoins will never be used as a real currency there is fair to many unless it can take over bitcoin.

BTC is the father of all altcoins, when BTC accepted world wide, some AltCoin will follow BTC wins.
Honestly some trusted company only want to accept BTC only for their payment. (for now)

i'm more interested in how many people will actually pay in bitcoin, and not just if the sto X will accept bitcoin

because there were cases of some store accepting bitcoin, yet people keep using the old fiat

Good news indeed. It is easy to find out new merchant that start accepting bitcoin. However, it is difficult to know how many new consumers have started using bitcoin to make their purchases/payments.

I'll be honest up to today I did not know that site existed, I thought that a famous dead person started adopting Bitcoin while having hunger protests for world peace :)

The main benefit is a boost in awareness of the service which can acquire the site a few new users to use Bitcoin there along with current users, the main issue is that there is difficulty in maintaining a complete index of sites that take it after the initial PR fades away and people are not aware of this service or others like it that do take BTC to address their needs.

That said it's good to hear that this prime name of a site is now accepting bitcoin.

ITs the first time I've heard of Gandi actually. I've been with godaddy and namecheap ever since but thanks for letting us know. I should spread the word to fellow webmasters. :)

Of course bitcoin can't take over the real currency and its perfect to stay that way after all we need real currency to buy to stores that don't accept coins.

As each day passes, I am more and more disappointed by the alts. Even the most innovative ones that were proclaiming themselves as the new Bitcoin 2.0 kings as Bitshares, NXT, Ethereum are doing very bad and are running out of funds. The most amazing thing is that nobody really wants them and their price is tanking further and further.

More and more I come to a conclusion that world ain't ready even for Bitcoin and not for some alts out there that have barely 10,000 users, no matter how innovative they are.

really happy to hear this news, but one thing is , how is their quality service? , is it better to survive on namecheap or migrating to gandi?

That's a good news! The more Bitcoin will be accepted the better! It' is also nice that you've tried it already, so we all may be sure it works. Good job!

Too pessimistic  :)
That's true many altcoins are doing very very bad but not all of them, few sites accepts altcoins deposits like direcbet (dogecoin, dash, Litecoin)...

OrangeWebsite in Iceland is another privacy respecting domain registrar and hosting company that accepts bitcoin. You can buy a top level domain from them with bitcoin and remain private. The article at gun.io blog referenced in OP is 3 years old and could be updated. How does Gandi compare to OrangeWebsite for anonymous website hosting (https://bitcoinnewsmagazine.com/is-anonymous-website-hosting-possible/)?

This is good news for the bitcoin community.
Personally i had few domains there when there was a giveaway.
Now going to move from godaddy and use gandi :) quality is good.

FTFY. Litecoin is the father of all altcoins.

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It is nice to see that the places to spend bitcoin is broadening and we're seeing a lot of people noticing bitcoins. I just hope that these kind of moves would not be limited to just online services but rather physical stores as well.

Not useful to me but this is a positive news. Wish that popular online shopping websites also accept bitcoins instead of paying via reward points/netbanking.

What is a "registrar" in the context of this company?

It's always great to hear of a new company accepting bitcoin!

This is not a new company in the market,
As far as i know this company is founded in 1999 so almost 16 years.
Their domain name is Registered On May 21, 1999, i consider it as an old company :)

Gandi one of high price domain registrator. Use lovingdomains, pay them in bitcoins and don't care.

It has been proven several times now that no altcoin is going to overtake Bitcoin and no altcoin is going to give you as many gains. Sure, you can risk it and you can say "when the halving happens and the price goes up, im sure Litecoin will go up too because it's the silver of crypto". Well that is a nice gamble, but still a big gample. Honestly its best to stay 100% BTC unless feeling lucky.

Great news indeed, always positive to hear that another large company accepts Bitcoin!
But don't forget that Namecheap also accepts Bitcoin, they're also pretty popular.

I'm reading here (https://www.gandi.net/news/en/2015-10-21/5885-now_accepting_bitcoin/) they've been accepting BTC for 2 days. That's interesting. We'll see in a few months if they have many customers choosing it. As a webmaster, I like that they are several registrars and hosting companies accepting BTC. Somehow, it's now possible to start web-based businesses without spending anything but BTC.

There is no reason to be disappointed. What is happening in the altcoin world is sheer madness! Way too many, and people actually believe they are part of something great. Might as well buy a lottery ticket. Very few alts will follow suit. Maybe 1-3 of the innovative ones will, but only if they can survive a few more massive altcoin-selloffs.

Nice to hear. I read their article states "we are citizens of the Internet". So looks like bitcoin is becoming internet's own money or even id card.

I hope not. I mean we all here want Bitcoin to be acceptable payment for everything and not just for like web hosting service or Netflix.

i'm not satisfied if one shop or one activity will use bitcoin, i want to see the actual numbers of people using bitcoin with Gandi

until then it's just one of those half-good news

Great news for bitcoin. But to be not overly optimistic this is not something that move general public.
To be honest Gandi is not that big. We need something extraordinary to bring bitcoin attention to masses!

It's the second registrar i know of that accepts bitcoin.

Just wondering, icann still requires the registrar to know the identity of everybody that registers a domainname, how does Gandi handles this problem? The other registrar i know of, just asks for your personal information and trusts you enough to accept your own input as true...