Cloudflare Registrar

Post by brobinson » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 3:51 PM UTC

samatcloudflare wrote: post #37

brobinson wrote: post #25

My 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…

Sorry about the billing issue; that's really frustrating. We've been working on a migration of our billing systems, but that has led to some cases of double charges which are unacceptable. Working to make that right now and glad the refund was successful. I'm looking at your ticket now; will make sure this gets solved today.

Post by StavrosK » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 3:56 PM UTC

dguo wrote: post #7

One 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.

Post by dessant » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:02 PM UTC

samatcloudflare wrote: post #49

dessant wrote: post #35

New GTLDs may cost considerably more at Cloudflare Registrar. For example, the annual cost of a .space domain during transfer is $15.18 (it was $17 two months ago), while renewal for the same domain at Namecheap costs $9.06. To be fair Namecheap lists it as a discounted offer, but that appears to be always the case for the .space TLD renewals.

If you can find it for $15.18 without having to buy other services, that's a deal and you should take it. Most discounts like that are offered as loss leaders in the hopes that you'll buy other add-ons.

Post by brobinson » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:15 PM UTC

SnowingXIV wrote: post #54

awill wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Every time I've thought about moving away from Namecheap to something else I've remembered those once in a blue moon times I've actually needed to reach out to support for mission critical type of events. The support I've received has been absolutely stellar. Above and beyond what I would have expected to be their scope of service. I don't know any other providers I hold as highly in support, especially anything comi…

Post by thinkcomp » Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 4:23 PM UTC

megous wrote: post #58

slondr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What?

Presumably by hiding the origin server. But that can be done by other technologies too, so it's not unique to CF. But I'd like more details from thinkcomp.