SpargoDomains vs Gandi

Gandi is one of Europe’s oldest registrars, long loved for its "no bullshit" motto and bundled extras like mailboxes. After its 2023 acquisition, pricing moved sharply upward, and the renewal gap is now the story: on their own pricing page (checked 2026-08-23), a .com registers at $11.00 and renews at $38.38.

How Gandi works

On their pricing page (checked 2026-08-23): .com registration $11.00, renewal $38.38 — a 3.5× jump at year two.
Bundled extras: email aliases and redirections, free anycast DNS with DNSSEC, free first-year SSL.
Strong European presence, multilingual support, and a long institutional history.
Broad TLD catalog including many ccTLDs that at-cost providers don’t carry.

How SpargoDomains works

Domains are registered through Cloudflare Registrar into your own Cloudflare account, at Cloudflare’s cost — about $10.46 for a .com today. We never touch the money, so a markup isn’t just absent, it’s impossible.
The renewal price is shown next to the first-year price before you commit, and it’s the same number — at-cost pricing has no promotional cliff.
No upsells anywhere: no hosting, no email plans, no site builders, no countdown timers. Search, confirm, done.
Price and availability are re-verified the moment before purchase; any change is a hard stop that asks you again. A purchase is never retried silently.
After you buy, the workspace keeps watching: Named → Pointed → Alive, from real DNS and HTTPS checks.
The honest catch: you need a Cloudflare account, domains there use Cloudflare nameservers, premium domains and transfers aren’t supported in the app yet, and the workspace itself will cost money (draft: $79/year founding) while the domains stay at cost.

Pick Gandi if…

Pick Gandi if you need its ccTLD breadth or its bundled mailboxes, and the renewal price is acceptable to you.

Pick SpargoDomains if…

Pick SpargoDomains if the renewal number is the number you care about: at cost it stays around $10–11 every year, and the difference on a 10-domain portfolio is roughly $270 a year.

Source for claims about Gandi: their public pricing page , checked 2026-08-23. Prices change; their page is always the source of truth. Found something outdated here? Tell us and it gets fixed.

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