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What about email hosting? Gandi includes 5 email accounts with every registration, while most other registrars charge for each account. Email is a basic need.
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I don't have the answer to that yet. On the one hand it's a bit far afield of what we normally do. On the other a lot of people seem to get it from their registrar and rely on it. The ideal situation would be if we could find a way to do email forwarding which wasn't just as good as what they do, but was exciting and meaningful. We'll keep thinking about it and let you know on our blog.
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…
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.
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…
Private Whois, Email, Hosting, SSL, etc offered as up-sells
Article actually addresses this:
"With a good idea on how to build a more secure registrar we asked our customers what they hated about their current registrar. Two phrases kept coming up: "bait and switch" and “endless upsell.”"
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…
I though namecheap was one of the better ones around? I'm looking for a domain registrar. Could share the link with namecheap horror stories? Thanks
Do cloudflare want to be registrar for other foreign TLDs in the future? I would love to see them support TLDs such as .dk, .de, .it etc. That way both me and my clients could begin consolidating domain registration in one place, instead of using expensive and shitty domain registration management services. Harder ones, like Tonga (.to) or Greenland (.gl) would be nice to have as well, but I don't think it's feasible…
Yes, we do.
It was so obviously shady that I just backed away and have been waiting ever since for some other naming system to become viable.
Meanwhile, this announcement is a ray of sunshine from behind the Cloudflare. (Sorry for the pun! I coudn't resist.)
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So if Google accidentally caches random JS malware, they suddenly become at fault for "hosting" it?
If someone points it out and they refuse to remove it and infect people who don't know better and trust Google, then the answer is "yes".
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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?
Most places and projects I've worked in the past 10 years or so have used GSuite or similar for inboxes, and Amazon SES or similar for programatically sending email. Those that didn't (shared-hosted websites on CPanel installations seemingly do still exist in 2018) had access to webmail in the hosting panel or as an installable application.
In this case I forwarded that email to my gmail account and it all works, but it's not perfect.
In either case, having at least email forwarding or an inbox is essential for a lot of common things you'd want to do on a domain. Forwarding works ok to avoid $60 / year for Google's offerings but has some limitations.
This is coming at it from the POV of just setting up a VPS to host some sites and wanting to accept email from your domain name without paying any more than what the domain cost to register.
I think this use case is super common, especially on HN.
No one thought Let's Encrypt would step up and offer a top tier free SSL solution. If it can be done for SSL, it can be done for real inboxes. :)