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Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by sofaofthedamned »

rk249 wrote: post #41
ksec wrote: post #24

I wouldn't have cared much about Domain Name Register just a week ago, but after what happen at Zoho, and all the horror story in the comments section from namecheap and others, Cloudflare Registar couldn't come at a better time. I really wish Cloudflare at least made $1 or $2 Gross Profits per domain. Who paids for Domain Register Support? I would much rather be a "customer" than I am not sure where they are making…

I though namecheap was one of the better ones around? I'm looking for a domain registrar. Could share the link with namecheap horror stories? Thanks

I used to use namecheap for all my stuff but they went a bit downhill. Their API was worse than useless and so rate limited I couldn't use it for Lets Encrypt DNS challenges in the end, so moved them all.

I wonder what the coverage is from CF for 'odd' tlds? I've got a .je domain that I had to register with gandi.net as no other big ones supported it.

After I moved my domains from Namecheap I wanted to close the account, rather than leave it dormant, and it took a week as support were so anal about the fact I had 1) some 'free' SSL certificates I had no intention of ever using and 2) 0.56UKP in my account I didn't care about but they wanted to transfer via Paypal to me. I appreciate the thorough nature of this, but i'd rather just close the account.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by scottydelta »

umbs wrote: post #26

Anyone here know if Cloudflare plans to let non-customers to transfer their domains to Cloudflare? Especially, if it's a personal domain? I purchased a domain from GoDaddy and host a blog. But they have been up selling and charging me needlessly. I imagine it's a headache for Cloudflare to support personal domains like GoDaddy does, but I really hope they do.

domains.com is owned by Godaddy AFAIK and they charge you to transfer domains between those two services.

I couldn't find a single mention of this fact anywhere on the internet. The only way to confirm is to go to 'Legal' link at the bottom of domains.com(WHOIS is set to private) and it takes you to a page with the domain www.secureserver.net which is owned by GoDaddy.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by edent »

Interesting. Wonder if they'll support punycode domains - either for internationalisation or for emoji.

I tried to get a .中国 domain, bet fell afoul of the "unique" restrictions that my reseller encountered.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by Ayesh »

carapace wrote: post #57

I've been shy of purchasing a domain name for years ever since I did an availability search on a registrar's site only to discover that the domain had been "reserved" a few milliseconds before my search and would therefore cost more. It was so obviously shady that I just backed away and have been waiting ever since for some other naming system to become viable. Meanwhile, this announcement is a ray of sunshine from b…

CloudFlare doesn't say they wouldn't do the same (although I believe they won't).

I don't really believe when people claim the registrars registered the domains themselves when they typed it in a search box. For example, it costs the registrars around $8 to register a .com, even for themselves. They make $1-2 profit from a purchase, and I would say spending $8 hoping the same user who searched it will be locked in is a risky gamble.

Sure, one can out a real human to assess the domain searches and try to lock users in, but it's still a gamble.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by Ayesh »

LakeAustin wrote: post #8
Operyl wrote: post #6

What are the supported TLDs going to be? I.e. codes, app, ca? WHOIS protection?

We'll support 224 TLDs at launch! Full list here: https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/ And you'll be able to redact your personal information from Whois with us, too.

This is a pretty extensive TLD List, specially considering CloudFlare has to directly deal with the registries than being a reseller of some commercial registrar (like enom).

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by zawerf »

Bluestrike2 wrote: post #55
rk249 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I though namecheap was one of the better ones around? I'm looking for a domain registrar. Could share the link with namecheap horror stories? Thanks

I think [0] is the article in question; just search the page for the namecheap comments. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059792

It seems like it was just a handful of users who posted their story multiple times. The users highclass, ethanwillis, kweks all had multiple comments only about namecheap on a thread that wasn't directly about namecheap.

Can I get more horror stories to confirm those are real? It's unfortunate because namecheap used to have the exact opposite reputation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396606

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by kijeda »

edent wrote: post #64

Interesting. Wonder if they'll support punycode domains - either for internationalisation or for emoji. I tried to get a .中国 domain, bet fell afoul of the "unique" restrictions that my reseller encountered.

.中国 is the country-code top-level domain for China, and has its own set of country-specific rules that they have devised.

Emoji is illegal according to the IETF IDN specification. Some naive clients allow it (i.e. don't follow the standard) but ICANN rules prohibit registries allowing registration of labels that are disallowed by the standard.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by Ayesh »

mariushn wrote: post #48

What about email hosting? Gandi includes 5 email accounts with every registration, while most other registrars charge for each account. Email is a basic need.

It is a basic need, but they are pretty distinct features. Registrars today sprinkle features such as email hosting, authoratice DNS hosting, email forwarding, SSL certificates (lol, I know), web site builders, etc for more profit.

I really hope CloudFlare registrar will be a proper stripped down registrar. They offer you domains for the wholesale price, and it's too much to ask for email hosting.

Re: Introducing Cloudflare Registrar

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Post by chrisweekly »

rk249 wrote: post #41
ksec wrote: post #24

I wouldn't have cared much about Domain Name Register just a week ago, but after what happen at Zoho, and all the horror story in the comments section from namecheap and others, Cloudflare Registar couldn't come at a better time. I really wish Cloudflare at least made $1 or $2 Gross Profits per domain. Who paids for Domain Register Support? I would much rather be a "customer" than I am not sure where they are making…

I though namecheap was one of the better ones around? I'm looking for a domain registrar. Could share the link with namecheap horror stories? Thanks

I've been very happy with iwantmyname.com
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