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Looks like there's a bug with the wait list, once you sign up don't visit the page again or it registers you again in a later wave! On further investigation it seems to be throwing 502 errors and then saying Wave 8, so maybe it's just a UI bug.
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If you want to blow everyone away then I think you should start with giving free real inboxes for everyone (maybe with some sane limit, or a way to pay per month to increase it), and then introduce email forwarding in the future (because I'm sure some people will still want that feature even with real inboxes available). If you GA'd with: ~$8 .com addresses, N real inboxes, free whois guard and a top notch DNS record…
When you say real inboxes, are you thinking webmail of some sort? Don't most people prefer to use Google Apps or the like these days?
Google Suite is something like $5 / month per domain name so offering that as a free feature would be a pretty big deal.
I hope you don't mind me ranting a bit about custom domains
> Custom Domain Protection for Cloudflare Registrar, available on the Enterprise Plan, protects your organization from domain hijacking with exclusively out-of-band verification of any changes to your Registrar account.
This is what keeps me locked into Google and other services. I just can't trust my custom domain, if I'm targeted by any semi competent attacker it WILL be hijacked. That you're offering this service only makes my suspicions stronger. I want to use your services but that's a showstopper. It's not your fault, of course, all registrars face the same issues. You need so many different factors to make the process secure it's not even funny, and you said it yourself: "That, obviously, doesn't scale".
A few years ago one of my customers domain was stolen by contacting the registrar support (one of the big ones, always recommended around here). They even had a scan of his passport. With so many data leaks, even from your own government, how do you even protect against these kind of things? His life for the next few months were living hell.
I really wish Cloudflare at least made $1 or $2 Gross Profits per domain. Who paids for Domain Register Support? I would much rather be a "customer" than I am not sure where they are making money from my Domain.
P.S - If those were wholesale price, do other companies get heavy discount for signing up in bulks? How do other companies made money when they are selling it for $0.99 or $6.99
I wouldn't have cared much about Domain Name Register just a week ago, but after what happen at Zoho, and all the horror story in the comments section from namecheap and others, Cloudflare Registar couldn't come at a better time. I really wish Cloudflare at least made $1 or $2 Gross Profits per domain. Who paids for Domain Register Support? I would much rather be a "customer" than I am not sure where they are making…
Base rate for a .com is around $8 plus a small icann fee. If anyone is selling it for .99, they are simply eating the cost in order to earn a long term customer.
In this case with cloudflare, I'm sure the point is, like their other products, to offer the free service as a gateway drug to their profitable enterprise products. They have an Enterprise registrar service that is pretty pricey.
Anyone here know if Cloudflare plans to let non-customers to transfer their domains to Cloudflare? Especially, if it's a personal domain? I purchased a domain from GoDaddy and host a blog. But they have been up selling and charging me needlessly. I imagine it's a headache for Cloudflare to support personal domains like GoDaddy does, but I really hope they do.
While Cloudflare appears to be doing things that are meant to help everyday people, I can't help but be suspicious. This is an organization that sticks with the "we don't host" bullshit line when web sites serve up Trojans which pretend to be Adobe Flash installers. While there's more subjectivity involved with dealing with hosting the content of spammers, there is zero subjectivity involved with clear and obvious ph…
> But why should registrars charge any markup over what the TLDs charge? That seemed as nutty to us as certificate authorities charging to run a bit of math. When we see a broken market on the Internet we like to do something about it.
That is not a broken market, it's actually free-market economics and business. Charging a markup for a service litterally is how many companies operate. I don't have a problem with it, and because it's a free market it allows CloudFlare to disrupt it.