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

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Post by ectospheno » Wed, May 06, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

firefoxd wrote: post #25

The agent starts a phone call, listens to the person on the line, analyzes which fraud bucket they fall into, and start the process. While they are on the phone with the agent, it buys a domain relevant to the victim, the agent codes and deploy the website specially catered to them and the fraud bucket. Collect payment, destroy the website, redirect the domain to google.com. no need to start a new call because you ha…

It is amazing to me that people still answer their phone. If it isn’t my wife or kids then my phone has a silent ringtone. If your voice mail doesn’t successfully transcribe to text then I delete it without listening. I check my postal mail since mail fraud is the only thing still taken seriously by anyone.

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

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Post by Silamoth » Wed, May 06, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

loeber wrote: post #304

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #281

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Yes unless you have a very very very good reason it's always best to just file a basic LLC in the state you are a resident of. Only costs a few hundred dollars at most and doesn't really complicate taxes

This is totally false, sorry. Delaware entities are the standard. Delaware corporate law is better understood than any other by a long shot. Dealing with a random non-Delaware LLC is usually a hint that your counterparty is a rube.

Huh? You got any sources on that? I’ve never heard anyone say a non-Delaware LLC is a bad idea. And most sources seem to say incorporating in your home state is usually the right call.

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

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Post by rsanek » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

makeitdouble wrote: post #102

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…

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.

I would expect the value of a domain purchase + setup handled by an agent is the highest for people that are not very technical. I'd say that a well-engineered agent will do a better job avoiding botching it than your average non-dev.

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

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Post by duped » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:04 PM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #160

Mario9382 wrote: post #101

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I thought this was excessive and impossible, but as I was reading, I realized nowadays everything you say is technically possible. The future gives me the chills.

The likely outcome is that the phone system becomes massively more locked down. Your phone will only ring if the caller has a number which is backed by a real ID, particularly one from your own country. It will become increasingly difficult to contact someone you don’t have a legitimate connection to. The banking system will become increasingly fraud resilient with better real time detection of fraud. Your phone may…

Ostensibly this is what STIR/SHAKEN was supposed to cover but aiui they basically fucked it up so bad that it will only work for domestic calls in the US.

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

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Post by Ylpertnodi » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC

hansmayer wrote: post #129

If the genius who came up with this idea is reading this: Nobody asked for this feature.

Tangent (not much): This includes you, microsoft.

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

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Post by boothby » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:08 PM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #55

nojs wrote: post #34

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This conflict is popping up everywhere. There is a push by a lot of companies to allow agentic use of their services (and new companies explicitly offering "X for agents"), ignoring the fact that "agent" means the same thing as "bot" which we've spent the last couple of decades actively filtering out. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

The future is the internet will be entirely bot activity and humans will ether be strapped in to the metaverse reels ai slop feed or they will be outside interacting with people in person again. Both of these seem like likely futures and probably both at the same time.

My wildest dream: we make a superintelligence, which destroys humanity to free up resources for it to make and consume an endless stream of impossibly cute kitten videos.

And before anybody replies: no, I don't mean "and puppy." They're just not as cute.

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

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Post by zuzululu » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:10 PM UTC

_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.…

Yea its just you and did you generate that with AI ?

Plenty use Cloudflare to ship and this basically negates the need to automate all the logistics. Not really sure what you are rambling on about, you are just mixing totally unrelated group of tools and services to support your "yeah agentic use of cloudflare is bad: which makes no sense.

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

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Post by zuzululu » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:11 PM UTC

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’.

but they have been doing that already for ages even before AI

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

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Post by kjkjadksj » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

pixel_popping wrote: post #221

Yizahi wrote: post #175

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LLM generation in general provides the most use to scammers and the like. Generate emails which people won't read, generate articles which are just honeypots or rip-offs, generate images to said articles, generate more and more spam. Every legit use case for LLM practically requires that human would verify the result manually, at least briefly. But spammers can enjoy skipping that step, since content was never a main…

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

Who do you sell to when there are no more humans??

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

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Post by zuzululu » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

Overall I feel like lot of HN accounts are using AI to generate comments, I already found several on this thread alone. Not sure what the hate is for cloudflare is tbh. I already buy domains automatically but cloudflare has been shipping a lot lately nd this is a great add-on.