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Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#22

Post by jamestanderson »

dguo wrote: post #7

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.

I've moved some domains to Cloudflare Registrar not knowing this limitation. I asked them about it and the support person said they are targeting Q1 2019 for this feature. Now that we're approaching that date I'm not sure they'll hit that.

I've also had a billing issue with Cloudflare Registrar. I transferred two domains and paid the renewal fee, and two months later was charged for the same domains again. They've since issued a refund after I raised a support ticket (still waiting on that to hit my card), but the fact that it happened at all is worrying to me.

Granted I was in early access so I expected some things not to be polished yet, but these are pretty critical areas to get right as a registrar. And since my billing issue happened just last week I doubt that issue has been fixed with the general release.

So I'm going to hold off on transferring more domains until it matures, or just stick with Gandi.

Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#23

Post by jacobush »

thinkcomp wrote: post #18
jgrahamc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We hope you'll buy other services from us.

With all due respect, you make my life (and many others' lives) miserable by enabling extortion rackets, mentally ill stalker types, and hate-mongers on a daily basis. It's not a new issue for you guys and you do nothing to respond to e-mails/forms/news media until it reaches a boiling point. You petitioned the UK Government to recognize the ways in which it had harassed Alan Turing? That's wonderful. Kudos. I petiti…

How?

Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#24

Post by snek »

throw0101a wrote: post #21

Meta: "support for hundreds of TLDs" * https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/ Crikey there's a lot of stuff out there. Seems that ICANN has approved just about any random word in the English language.

But they still haven't got .dev :(

Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#25

Post by brobinson »

My experience with Registrar has been 4/5 okay and 1/5 horrible so far.

I transferred five domains from Namecheap, and four of them went through within an hour. The fifth was in a pending status. I was charged a one year renewal for each domain as part of the transfer process.

The fifth domain hadn't transferred after a few days so I filed a support ticket. They told me it could take up to 15 days.

After roughly 30 days, I was billed _again_ for a one year renewal of that domain which is still on Namecheap (unlocked), and still pending transfer. Registrar has now charged me $90 (.io domain is $45/year) for a domain _which they do not control_, and this has obviously not been reflected in the domain expiration date.

I contacted support again and they issued me a $45 refund, but the domain is still not transferred... not sure what to do at this point. (ticket #1657921 if anyone from CF is reading this)

Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#26

Post by slondr »

thinkcomp wrote: post #18
jgrahamc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We hope you'll buy other services from us.

With all due respect, you make my life (and many others' lives) miserable by enabling extortion rackets, mentally ill stalker types, and hate-mongers on a daily basis. It's not a new issue for you guys and you do nothing to respond to e-mails/forms/news media until it reaches a boiling point. You petitioned the UK Government to recognize the ways in which it had harassed Alan Turing? That's wonderful. Kudos. I petiti…

What?

Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#27

Post by spurgu »

thinkcomp wrote: post #18
jgrahamc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We hope you'll buy other services from us.

With all due respect, you make my life (and many others' lives) miserable by enabling extortion rackets, mentally ill stalker types, and hate-mongers on a daily basis. It's not a new issue for you guys and you do nothing to respond to e-mails/forms/news media until it reaches a boiling point. You petitioned the UK Government to recognize the ways in which it had harassed Alan Turing? That's wonderful. Kudos. I petiti…

What?

Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#29

Post by slondr »

azinman2 wrote: post #2

If they don’t charge for themselves, what’s the motivation to do this?

Cloudflare's entire business model is positioning themselves as the middleman to every part of the internet.

They don't host your site, but they'll mirror the front-end on their CDN to speed it up. They'll handle your DNS and TLS certs, and even your domain name, even though they aren't (yet) in the business of selling either.

Pretty much everything Google and Amazon offer as side services Cloudflare offers for free to some extent, and then charges for enhanced versions of those products.

Re: Cloudflare Registrar

#30

Post by samatcloudflare »

bitmedley wrote: post #28

Note that for some reason, Cloudflare charges substantially more for .io domains than other registrars. Cloudflare charges $45 whereas Dynadot charges $26.99 and Porkbun charges $28.97. https://community.cloudflare.com/t/io-domain-price-not-whole... https://tld-list.com/tld/io

.io is heavily subsidized by most registrars for a couple reasons: the .io registry offers substantial volume discounts and .io domains are associated with a higher spend on add-on services. In most cases, they discount .io domains because they hope users spend more on other upsell products.
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