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Zero communication in my case as well.
An assumption of false-payment led to them suspending "300-500" accounts (mostly UK based). I am still of the opinion something far more sinister is at play... and this doesn't comfort me.
Also don't forget: Cloudflare breaks many second and third world countries' Internet with their DNS captchas because they think the good guys live only in first world countries (maybe look up the word discrimination in your dictionary cloudflare) and force them to install extensions like PrivacyPass because they think "we are so big and know what is right for the world".
CloudFlare is selling domains at cost. That means they are not making any money from being a domain registrar, which means they will do everything to keep the cost of doing it as low possible to themselves. This means lack of customer service and use of ML dragnets for "anomalous" behavior.
as much as i like cloudflare (and i like them a lot), it's kind of absurd that this kind of thing can happen. a lot of red flags that, if true, would mean that their infrastructure require a lot more care (127.0.0.1 as the source of an audit event? no email when DNS records are deleted? no 1-to-1 message due to this happening?).
I had an issue with them recently where a SRV record pointing to “.” (meaning “service unavailable”) was being rewritten to the string “false”. It didn’t take them too long to fix it, but it made me wonder how they managed to push a bug like that to production without some sort of automated test catching it.
Is it really all that surprising when a big company that claims to be good but hosts phishing content in the name of free speech does whatever they want, including breaking things and not explaining why? I don't trust Cloudflare one bit, and I think everyone should question whether their attempt to re-centralize everything is beneficial to the planet. There are two major problems here: one, the problem itself, which…
Does OP have a free account with just DDOS protection. Does a paid account still have the notice to ask in the community forums first?
Is it really all that surprising when a big company that claims to be good but hosts phishing content in the name of free speech does whatever they want, including breaking things and not explaining why? I don't trust Cloudflare one bit, and I think everyone should question whether their attempt to re-centralize everything is beneficial to the planet. There are two major problems here: one, the problem itself, which…
As a self-hosting enthusiast, something like Cloudflare is one of the best chances of having a plan that competes with "just hosting it in the cloud".
https://community.cloudflare.com/search?q=127.0.0.1%20audit
Every related incident seems to be due to either nameservers temporarily/incidentally chanced away from CF (and CF's service not re-checking it perhaps) or the registration billing failing (which doesn't look to be the case since registration expires 2021[0]). The latest change to the domain was about a week ago[0], so if that was when it was transferred to CF, it might be the first scenario.
> Because Cloudflare deleted my domain registration I can't change the status from clientTransferProhibited through their dashboard so I don't think I can even leave.
Unless something else happened, deleting the zone from your account doesn't affect the registration. Re-adding the domain will instantly allow you to view the registration info and likely transfer away; this would only not work if the zone is banned for some reason.
Also don't forget: Cloudflare breaks many second and third world countries' Internet with their DNS captchas because they think the good guys live only in first world countries (maybe look up the word discrimination in your dictionary cloudflare) and force them to install extensions like PrivacyPass because they think "we are so big and know what is right for the world".
That's CDN captcha, not DNS. If you use Cloudflare solely as a DNS provider, your users don't see the captcha. If you route your traffic through their servers, then they do.