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Given that they're selling this at cost, what does cloudflare get out of this?
One drawback to using Cloudflare Registrar that wasn't obvious to me at first is that you have to use Cloudflare's nameservers. Not that I blame them for it, but it'd be nice if the marketing page made this detail more obvious. I've chosen to pay an extra $0.50 or so per domain to Porkbun for the option of using other nameservers.
There's several other features I find missing compared to a more mature registrar, but hopefully they'll get there eventually. For now, I'm moving my low-importance domains over to it for the cost savings, but will keep my primary domains under GoDaddy.
Can you hide your contact details? The service is super cheap but that spotlight has a hidden cost.
In fact the sole problem I've had, is with another registrar. I've had my domains with GoDaddy for 15 or 17 years. I've never had a problem with them, so it was fine, but they've begun seriously pushing their prices up (now about double what Cloudflare is charging). All the transfers from GoDaddy to Cloudflare went super smooth, took minutes, except for one high-value domain I've owned since the 1990s. GoDaddy is quasi attempting to hold that hostage, they put it through some kind of manual transfer intervention that will take a week to complete (hopefully).
Years ago (13, to be exact) when I was young and didn't know anything and couldn't afford to buy a parked .com that made more sense, I registered a .ws domain at Godaddy of all places. It has subsequently become the e-mail address I use for everything.
Unfortunately, .ws doesn't really allow transfers. Now that there are all these non-evil registrars popping up, I'd like to switch to one of them, but I can't. Does anyone have any ideas about what if anything I could do? I suppose I could by another domain and forward the e-mail, but the whole point of having my own domain was that I wouldn't have to switch again :(
Off topic, but something I've wondered for a while. Maybe someone here knows :) Years ago (13, to be exact) when I was young and didn't know anything and couldn't afford to buy a parked .com that made more sense, I registered a .ws domain at Godaddy of all places. It has subsequently become the e-mail address I use for everything. Unfortunately, .ws doesn't really allow transfers. Now that there are all these non-evi…
> Can I transfer my domain to another registrar?
> Yes, .WS domain transfers may take place in accordance with ICANN's "Policy on Transfer of Registrations between Registrars". Please contact the registrar you would like to transfer to for instructions on how to proceed.
Given that they're selling this at cost, what does cloudflare get out of this?
We hope you'll buy other services from us.
You petitioned the UK Government to recognize the ways in which it had harassed Alan Turing? That's wonderful. Kudos. I petition you to recognize the ways in which you are enabling--even encouraging--the harassment of thousands more. Imagine if Turing's adversaries had worn masks, no one knew where they came from, and no government was competent to investigate cross-border. That's your employer, selling the masks.
If I or my family members end up dead at the hands of the convicted murderer (against whom I have a restraining order) who has been stalking me and posting vitriol on Cloudflare-enabled sites, I hope you think about your role and the news cameras show up at your front desk. Or your desk.
Very much looking forward to Cloudflare's eventual bankruptcy. So no, I will not register domain names through you.
Off topic, but something I've wondered for a while. Maybe someone here knows :) Years ago (13, to be exact) when I was young and didn't know anything and couldn't afford to buy a parked .com that made more sense, I registered a .ws domain at Godaddy of all places. It has subsequently become the e-mail address I use for everything. Unfortunately, .ws doesn't really allow transfers. Now that there are all these non-evi…