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

Press contact: Wendy White - Phone: +44-7802-249-602 / Email: wendy@gandi.net