LONDON, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --     Gandi.net, the largest ICANN-accredited registrar in France,
announces its expansion into the UK domain name and virtualised hosting
market.

"We are very pleased to launch our new UK service which will support both
our existing UK users and welcome in new customers. Gandi is known as a
domain registrar that takes a stand against spammers, domain squatters, and
dodgy practices in the industry, and we have built a small but loyal group of
UK customers around this, along with our army of French customer advocates.
The UK customers have been asking us to focus our attention over here, so we
have set up a UK office to listen and respond to their needs. We will
continue to build great products for you to buy, but never 'sell' them too
you. We don't spend money on advertising; instead we prefer our customers to
be our advocates. If you don't believe in our services, we shouldn't be
selling them!" says Joe White, COO of Gandi.net.

Gandi was founded in 1999 out of the desire to create free and fair
access to your space on the internet; your address, your domain name. The
domain buyer was made the 'owner' of the domain, and not the registrar,
sounds obvious now but back then it often didn't happen. 10 years later,
Gandi continues to push for a fairer approach to domain buying and selling,
customer led products and services, and this is why it is the biggest
registrar in France.

Gandi have setup a dedicated UK team based in London working
to support the UK customers and promote their ethical domain and cutting edge
hosting services. To kick off, the price of the .co.uk and .org.uk domain
names have been lowered to GBP3 (ex VAT) per year. With every Gandi domain
you get full DNS control, a free blog, 5 email mailboxes with infinite
aliases (1 GB storage), full customer support, and privacy protection. While
you will find cheaper .uk domains on the market, you won't find one that
includes these services for free.

"It's also part of Gandi's philosophy to sell domains at a
reasonable price (not as loss leaders), so that you know we're not just
trying to lure you in and sell you something else." explains Joe.

Gandi has also just launched their unique virtualised hosting
service. The Gandi service is unparalleled because of its extreme flexibility
and security. Your server runs with its own dedicated resources and can be up
and running in 10 minutes. You can increase or reduce the power instantly
with no loss of service. Gandi's infrastructure is based on high availability
servers placed in two separate locations on the same network loop that allows
them to "move" a server from one location to another seamlessly without the
slightest disruption in service. http://www.gandi.co.uk/hosting

Gandi will soon launch additional services for customers who want to
build a well designed, hosted website quickly and easily. Watch this space.

About Gandi.net:

Created in 1999 and purchased in 2005 by an experienced
executive team, Gandi manages more than 760,000 domain names for clients in
198 countries around the world, which places the company as a leading domain
names registrar in France and sixth in Europe. Today, Gandi is a leader in
the field of domain name registrars, always putting the customers needs
first, with a commitment to high quality, innovative products. The company's
goal is to create an alternative and independent line of Internet services
based around domain names. Gandi is devoted to giving everyone the tools they
need to discuss their interests, present products or services, or to simply
express themselves. In short, we enable people to stake out a personal online
presence of professional quality. Our clients range from individuals and
small companies, to public institutions (EU/ECB) and large multinational
corporations. Many have put confidence in us, and it's something we are
deeply proud of.

More information on Gandi is available at: http://www.gandi.co.uk/press

Press contact: wendy@gandi.net