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Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by jtl999 »

Very interesting.

I sure hope that when they go live that don't force people to use Cloudflare's nameservers.

As I've mentioned before I use Uniregistry and I'm quite happy with them, but at the end of the day, how do you trust your domain register when uncertain things that often have no written policy happen (someone impersonating you to hijack your domains, someone filing bogus abuse/UDRP notices to get your personal information despite using a WHOIS privacy service, etc.)

I'd be curious what other users think of the second part.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by simcop2387 »

zackbloom wrote: post #148
Nerada wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any chance of allowing more TLDs for the registration process? My TLD of choice for e-mail (.Industries) is considered illegitimate when attempting to register for Cloudflare.

Can you contact our support team? All legitimate TLDs should be able to register on Cloudflare.

I'm still in line myself, but any idea if transferring a .bot TLD is possible? Right now amazon seems to only allow Encirca to be the registrar for those domains since it's not technically in any kind of open access right now.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by lazycouchpotato »

jazoom wrote: post #83
nickjj wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say give namesilo.com a shot. $8.99 .coms as a base price, free whois guard for life, solid support and no up-sell spam or BS. I moved almost all of my domains there over the last year'ish.

Everything about Namesilo is perfect except their terrible website. That's a downside I can live with. I also highly recommend them.

I love Namesilo and have been using them for over a year with no hiccups.

However, they were acquired by a Canadian investment firm earlier this year [1]. Till now there's been no change and things are still running smoothly — I just hope that continues.

[1] https://coupontree.co/namesilo-was-sold-for-9-5-million/

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by snowwrestler »

dx87 wrote: post #119
eridius wrote: post #103

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That's misleading. They removed the records of one site. Not "sites". And they did it because that site was claiming that CloudFlare providing them services meant that CloudFlare secretly supported their (hate-based) ideology. And it's also worth pointing out that CloudFlare wasn't the only company terminating services for Storm Front. GoDaddy dropped them, then Google dropped them (and their YouTube account), then T…

You failed to mention that the decision to drop them was made unilaterally by the CEO, and he said it was because he woke up in a bad mood that day. That was why people were talking about it; all you have to do is get on the bad side of someone at the company and they'll try to effectively erase you from the internet, and people will defend it by saying "it's a private business, they can't be forced to host anyone".…

> all you have to do is get on the bad side of someone at the company and they'll try to effectively erase you from the internet

This is such ridiculous hyperbole and willfully ignores the reality of what Storm Front is and what they stand for. The CEO absolutely made the right call and Cloudflare has done just fine since then.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by jazoom »

lazycouchpotato wrote: post #173
jazoom wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything about Namesilo is perfect except their terrible website. That's a downside I can live with. I also highly recommend them.

I love Namesilo and have been using them for over a year with no hiccups. However, they were acquired by a Canadian investment firm earlier this year [1]. Till now there's been no change and things are still running smoothly — I just hope that continues. [1] https://coupontree.co/namesilo-was-sold-for-9-5-million/

Thank you for the info. I did not know that.

Also, on closer inspection today, I realised that Namesilo does indeed increase renewal fee after the first year. The fee stays the same thereafter, and it's still the cheapest around, but it's worth keeping in mind.

I caught onto this when I realised their registration price is actually below the wholesale cost for .com domains, according to this Cloudflare blog post.

I might move my domains to Cloudflare when they make this available.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by Gigablah »

chrisweekly wrote: post #70
rk249 wrote: post #41

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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

I've been very happy with iwantmyname.com

Seconding iwantmyname for their no-nonsense UX. Been a happy customer for 4 years.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by amluto »

brandur wrote: post #136
conradev wrote: post #133

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Interesting that no one here has mentioned Google Domains: - It has no up-sells - I trust Google's security more than Cloudflare's - It has decent customer support, unlike some of Google's other products

Aside from the price, one very good reason to be interested in CloudFlare as a registrar compared to Google Domains is that CloudFlare supports CNAME flattening [1] so that you can use a CNAME instead of an IP address for an A record (AKA "ALIAS" on DNSimple or Route53). I'm using Google Domains right now, but have been using CloudFlare to host my DNS for ages for this reason alone. I'll think about transferring my d…

Would it really be that hard to update DNS so that CNAMEs on non-leaf domains actually worked? Sure, IoT devices might never update, but I’m not sure that actually matters.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by innocenat »

amluto wrote: post #177
brandur wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aside from the price, one very good reason to be interested in CloudFlare as a registrar compared to Google Domains is that CloudFlare supports CNAME flattening [1] so that you can use a CNAME instead of an IP address for an A record (AKA "ALIAS" on DNSimple or Route53). I'm using Google Domains right now, but have been using CloudFlare to host my DNS for ages for this reason alone. I'll think about transferring my d…

Would it really be that hard to update DNS so that CNAMEs on non-leaf domains actually worked? Sure, IoT devices might never update, but I’m not sure that actually matters.

... but that would be misnomer? Because CNAME is Canonical Name, not Alias.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by kr4 »

LakeAustin wrote: post #8
Operyl wrote: post #6

What 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.

Couldn't see .IN in the list

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by allornothing »

tokyodude wrote: post #129
rk249 wrote: post #41

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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

not sur about horror stories but IIRC namecheap only supports SMS 2 factor which is insecure and not recommended by NIST namecheap also can't handle standard 410 character DKIM records from gsuite since their internal DB only allows 256 character records

I ran into this same issue a few days ago where I needed to enter a long DKIM key into AWS Route53. Some providers might handle it differently, but this is a inherent DNS protocol limitation. You can split the string into multiple substrings, seperated by a space. Etc "long string..." => "long st" "ring...".
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