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On the other hand, i've started using them more for DNS because the one time I forgot my password (typo in password manager I think) they made it very difficult for me to reset it, asked for pieces of ID, phone number registered in my name etc...

This is at the time of the stories of other registrars giving customer second and third chances to guess their PIN, or credit card or whatever mechanism they had, and resulting in domain hijacking.



> asked for pieces of ID

This is annoying for everyone but the adversary who can just spend $50 to buy a set of fake ids with your info.

Especially since Gandi doesn’t store your old IDs, they aren’t even going to check if the info on the fakes matches the ones you provided previously.

> phone number registered in my name

I can’t imagine this working very well, just give them a number from a country where they can’t verify who owns the number.




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