I transferred one domain to Cloudflare, and I didn't have any issues. I admit that it's just one data point, but I am happy.
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#82The major issue with this is that the transferred domain must use CloudFlare NS and be on the platform. Really not worth the lock-in for like $1/year you save off other places.
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#83My 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 d…
This is precisely my fear. Cloudflare is using price as a selling point. For people with just a few domains, price isn't important. I have 5 domains with hover.com. I'm happy to pay a couple of bucks extra per year to know that there's real support. I can call and get an answer in 10 seconds. Granted, I've never needed to call support, but losing my domain would be a huge disaster with no website, no email, and cost…
I've been a customer of hover for a couple of years now. I've transferred as many of my GoDaddy domains to it as I could without affecting any running services (email mostly). And now I have 35 domains on hover. I'm happy to pay the increased price just because the UI doesn't change.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't see Nominet letting it happen.
Why in particular? Plenty of other registrars offer .uk or the public suffixes under it like .co.uk and .org.uk The Nominet requirements do cause these to break mysteriously much more often than some generic TLD spun up yesterday by people convinced this is a gold rush (e.g. my registrar offered me a great renewal deal for a .co.uk I control, I pressed "Yes please" and then their system believed I had taken the deal…
“Some registries do not allow domains to be registered with WHOIS Redaction or WHOIS Privacy. Many of these are country TLDs (ccTLDs) like .uk. Cloudflare does not yet support TLDs that prohibit WHOIS redaction, but we will in the near future.”
- https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/domain-registrat...
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#85Before you register your domain with Cloudflare, please consider who their other customers are. Cloudflare today provides services for many white supremacist websites; they kicked off the Daily Stormer in 2017 after widespread criticism, but still receive money from many others. From what I can see, their senior leadership genuinely believes that, morally, they have an obligation to provide services for horrible peop…
My entire issue with this is that CloudFlare hides behind some “first amendment” type nonsense, which is literally is irrelevant outside US borders.
Also, being a CF customer means sharing the same serving nodes as all those “interesting” websites. Some people are fine with that, others may not be.
I upvoted you since Hacker News is protective of CF for obvious reasons. I don’t see why this isn’t open for debate.
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#86Been looking to transfer my domains away from Godaddy but can't find a registrar I like that accepts .ws, which is my main domain. Cloudflare doesn't either :\
Here are all the registrars that support ws: https://www.website.ws/registrars.dhtml
ah, thank you! didn't occur to me to go to .ws itself.
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#87Any timeline they actually allow Registration of New Domain. Or do they expect us to register somewhere else and do the transfer?
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#88One 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.
This seemed obvious to me, in that I can't see why you would want to use Cloudflare as your Registrar if you weren't using their DNS services. I've always switched my DNS services over to Cloudflare as soon as I've bought a domain, so for me I like having the easy integration of Cloudflare managing the domain and the DNS records.
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#89One 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.
This seemed obvious to me, in that I can't see why you would want to use Cloudflare as your Registrar if you weren't using their DNS services. I've always switched my DNS services over to Cloudflare as soon as I've bought a domain, so for me I like having the easy integration of Cloudflare managing the domain and the DNS records.
To save money. Which I think makes sense considering the main selling point for Cloudflare Registrar is the at-cost pricing.
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#90While I'd love to switch, I switched to google's a couple years ago, and the killer feature for me, is free mail forwarding with the domain (no mail server setup). I've got a bunch of domains I don't really use anymore, but want to be able to receive the mail for a couple addresses.
May consider moving most of my domains over all the same though.