Introducing Cloudflare Registrar
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Introducing Cloudflare Registrar
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#2This is awesome! Charging the exact same price as the registry wholesale price.
NameSilo, as far as I know, comes very close to the registry pricing and offers DNSSEC, nameserver registration and other APIs with the registry.
This could totally throw all registrars out of competition for the price of registry wholesale price. You just have to hope CloudFlare wouldn't overstep their role as a registrar if you only register the domain from them.
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#3Are you planning on exposing a registration and domain search API that can be used to purchase domains and set them up with zones automatically?
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#4This sounds great. Hopefully the TLD coverage is extensive, I dislike having my domains split across multiple registrars based on their supported extensions.
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#5This is awesome! Charging the exact same price as the registry wholesale price. NameSilo, as far as I know, comes very close to the registry pricing and offers DNSSEC, nameserver registration and other APIs with the registry. This could totally throw all registrars out of competition for the price of registry wholesale price. You just have to hope CloudFlare wouldn't overstep their role as a registrar if you only reg…
I currently use NameSilo. Don't forget they also offer free whois privacy for life.
My only complaint with them is their DNS records are only updated once every 15 minutes.
This makes doing automated API based DNS based LE challenges annoying because you need to sleep your script for 15 minutes to ensure the update got pushed.
Also, I'm surprised Cloudflare omit talking about whois privacy in the blog post. Makes me wonder if they plan to sell that for some amount of money.
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#6What are the supported TLDs going to be? I.e. codes, app, ca? WHOIS protection?
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#7Are you planning on exposing a registration and domain search API that can be used to purchase domains and set them up with zones automatically?
Yes, we are planning on releasing those features.
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#8What are the supported TLDs going to be? I.e. codes, app, ca? WHOIS protection?
We'll support 224 TLDs at launch! Full list here:
https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/
And you'll be able to redact your personal information from Whois with us, too.
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#9This sounds great. Hopefully the TLD coverage is extensive, I dislike having my domains split across multiple registrars based on their supported extensions.
We want to help you consolidate those! Full list here for TLDs supported at launch, but we're busy working to add more before then.
https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/
Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar
#10This is awesome! Charging the exact same price as the registry wholesale price. NameSilo, as far as I know, comes very close to the registry pricing and offers DNSSEC, nameserver registration and other APIs with the registry. This could totally throw all registrars out of competition for the price of registry wholesale price. You just have to hope CloudFlare wouldn't overstep their role as a registrar if you only reg…
I currently use NameSilo. Don't forget they also offer free whois privacy for life. My only complaint with them is their DNS records are only updated once every 15 minutes. This makes doing automated API based DNS based LE challenges annoying because you need to sleep your script for 15 minutes to ensure the update got pushed. Also, I'm surprised Cloudflare omit talking about whois privacy in the blog post. Makes me…
We actually didn't talk about WHOIS Privacy because it's becoming less and less of a relevant feature in the post-GDPR world. We do support it, free of charge.
Cloudflare is also the largest authoritative DNS deployment in the world, and changes propagate in closer to 15 seconds than 15 minutes.