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Comment by zokier | Hacker News Reader

Interesting that so many recommend Gandi, I wonder if there is some timezone-bias in play.

Anyways, you probably should consider actually reading the ToS for the companies you are planning to do business with. I think at least Gandi has fairly vague terms on which they can terminate the service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388928

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NearlyFreeSpeech.net puts some effort into their libertarian approach:

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/help/abuse

In the end though, every company is going to reserve the option of termination for any reason:

   NearlyFreeSpeech.NET reserves the right at any time and for any reason, 
   including but not limited to your violation of these TACOS, to limit, 
   suspend, or terminate your use of the Services and to discard any of your Content.

I'm pretty sure almost every service in existence reserves the right to terminate your service for "fairly vague reasons".

Yet only Gandi explicitly reserves the right to terminate your service for such odd things as discussing hacking, hosting a racist blog comment, or hosting a Keurig coffee maker review that explains how to bypass the K-Cup DRM. Generally, other registrars do not police the content of your domains except to comply with court orders. Gandi's service agreement is very much not boilerplate.

AFAIK it's a translation of the French contract. But we've seen this comment enough times that our legal team is now reviewing it.

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