Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

Post by mook » Wed, May 06, 2026, 7:37 AM UTC

compounding_it wrote: post #78

_pdp_ wrote: post #51

The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

> to what end? People making cooking websites, websites for their garden, etc usually have nowhere to go. A web app who is an agent for a customer will then deploy agents in the backend to deploy the website too. Basically what one would do manually, you tell one agent to make another agent do it. Meta agents are where are going it seems.

Post by ElFitz » Wed, May 06, 2026, 7:40 AM UTC

sshine wrote: post #132

ascorbic wrote: post #97

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People use agents to deploy sites all the time. Buying a domain is part of that if you want to build a site that's beyond a toy. Allowing agents to do a task isn't just for things you do every day – it's also for things you do rarely and need agents' help. It's not just devs using agents to perform these sort of tasks anymore. Stripe Atlas makes it massively easier for startups to incorporate in Delaware. This is par…

> it's also for things you do rarely and need agents' help I recently set up DNSSEC for the first time. It really was just a bunch of copy-paste from one provider to another. I like to understand what I'm doing, and LLMs helped greatly with that. But it was copy-pasting screenshots into chat, so not really agentic.

Post by Fomite » Wed, May 06, 2026, 7:46 AM UTC

compounding_it wrote: post #78

_pdp_ wrote: post #51

The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

> to what end? People making cooking websites, websites for their garden, etc usually have nowhere to go. A web app who is an agent for a customer will then deploy agents in the backend to deploy the website too. Basically what one would do manually, you tell one agent to make another agent do it. Meta agents are where are going it seems.

Post by impjohn » Wed, May 06, 2026, 7:50 AM UTC

sshine wrote: post #126

grey-area wrote: post #69

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Perfect for spammers, scammers and domain squatters, who can now automate their activities even more. Can’t think of any other uses for this given the current state of LLM ‘agents’, though I can’t wait for the next report of something like ‘openclaw registered 1000 domains for me without asking and now cloudflare won’t refund me’.

The DNS provider I recently switched to surprised me with a policy: To create records for more than one domain, you need to write a personal support email. They say it's to raise DNSSEC awareness, but I think it's also a robot captcha.

Post by adamas » Wed, May 06, 2026, 7:53 AM UTC

riedel wrote: post #73

grey-area wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perfect for spammers, scammers and domain squatters, who can now automate their activities even more. Can’t think of any other uses for this given the current state of LLM ‘agents’, though I can’t wait for the next report of something like ‘openclaw registered 1000 domains for me without asking and now cloudflare won’t refund me’.

And cloudflare can actually sell them priority access to pass their bot protection or introduce micropaiments for agents access content. I feel cloudflare is getting a bit scary tbh. It is like your friendly bot net.