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

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

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Post by encom »

sshine wrote: post #236
mapkkk wrote: post #157

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Are you perchance talking about deSEC? I've also switched to them, and thought that it was too much work to send an email and wait for replies, so I ended up using dummy inboxes for my other, lesser important domains. Though I guess it's still a good thing they do this? At the time I remember being mildly inconvenienced, but not enough to actually care. I just remember thinking, "How is this nonprofit going to handle…

Yes, deSEC. They replied somewhat quickly (for humans). I had accumulated enough hope for them to wait the 25 hours it took them. And yes, I wouldn't go this way either.

Must be a new thing, because I have a handful of domains with them and I've never talked to their support.

I've used Desec for several years now, and I'm very happy with them. Zero problems, would recommend.

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

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Post by tdeck »

carlosjobim wrote: post #238
tdeck wrote: post #234

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What about SquareSpace and the like?

It's certainly a great and useful tool. But it's a website maker somewhat in the same way that a Facebook page or Instagram account is a website maker. AFAIK you can't make a website on SquareSpace and download it to your computer, edit it locally and move it to a different host, etc. In the past there were actual WYSIWYG editors which let you design your website or CMS theme and then do whatever you wished with it.…

2 minutes on Google showed me that DreamWeaver is still around and getting updates, so those desktop tools still exist as well.

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

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Post by TychoCelchuuu »

reaperducer wrote: post #253
pixel_popping wrote: post #221

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I disagree frankly, as the next wave is clearly fully autonomous businesses.

I disagree frankly, as the next wave is clearly fully autonomous businesses. Considering the disaster of that AI-powered store in San Francisco, I'm skeptical that this could happen in the next wave. Or even the next ocean. (WSJ article from a few weeks ago stated that the "AI" can't stop ordering candles, and manages the staff so poorly that sometimes there are no employees scheduled for some shifts.)

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

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Post by daft_pink »

Is it possible to block the agents from deleting domains? I’m comfortable with the risks of everything else, but I don’t want to give ai unfettered access to my cloudflare accounts because I don’t want to give it the ability to remove or delete domains.

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

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Post by PunchyHamster »

grey-area wrote: post #69
_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.…

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’.

scamming appears to be lone industry where LLMs are truly a 10x revolution

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

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Post by jcgrillo »

notarobot123 wrote: post #225
pixel_popping wrote: post #221

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I disagree frankly, as the next wave is clearly fully autonomous businesses.

Agreed, "fully autonomous businesses" is the evolutionary next step for spam. Spamcorp services are the future. Don't resist it, that would be futile.

Onion routing but for shell companies instead of packets

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Post by makeitdouble »

barnabee wrote: post #154
makeitdouble wrote: post #102

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Wouldn't it be critical if the agent botched the domain purchase in weird ways ? Short of throwaway sites (spam etc) it's hard to imagine skimping time on this specific, mostly painless part.

People are skimping time in every part. I am watching people who can't code build and deploy dashboards and sites with Claude Code (desktop app - they don't use the CLI), then go cap in hand to developer friends to get it hosted on a domain (rather than some Vercel or whatever URL). Those people absolutely want to risk letting an agent buy and set up the domain. This is not necessarily as blindly stupid as you might…

> why not?

Let's say they buy a first time discounted $5 domain with a $9000 renewal (could the first renewals be made contractually mandatory?), potentially some other weird terms that the agent agreed to for them.

If I was ill spirited I'd go look at how the agents try to buy and setup juicy traps to milk it as much as I can for the first wave.

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

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Post by makeitdouble »

ascorbic wrote: post #127
makeitdouble wrote: post #102

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Wouldn't it be critical if the agent botched the domain purchase in weird ways ? Short of throwaway sites (spam etc) it's hard to imagine skimping time on this specific, mostly painless part.

If the rest of your deployment flow is via the agent, needing to switch over to a different context and open up a browser and login (or create an account) and buy the domain absolutely is a bump in the road.

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