Hello, I am deciding on a reputable domain provider to choose. I understand that Michael Bazzell recommends Cloudflare, but from researching quite a bit, it seems people don’t recommend it. From a security stand point, Cloudflare seems good, unless I’m mistaken. What do people recommend ? I’m usin…

Cloudflare is a CDN, not a domain. If you are looking for domains, the service provider you are looking for is a registrar. There are a few, njalla, namecheap, namesilo are a few that come to mind. Bunny is a CDN alternative to Cloudflare. Michael is very reputable and author of various books, sho…

Cloudflare is actually a nameserver like others but provides things like DDOS protection and more security options tha a traditional Nameserver. They’re not just a CDN. Cloudflare does also provide domains but that’s a different business of theirs.

Personally my domain (anonymizing) comes from the local regsitrar that provides .cy domans and I use cloudflare for the nameserver. My local registrar does also support DNSSEC and stuff like that (which I have taken advantage of DNSSEC with Cloudflare) but I suppose it depends on what you want at th…

I use Cloudflare as my domain registrar. They do it at cost. They’re not that bad of a company, in fact I have a higher opinion of them than most private companies. I think all the hate comes from them being too big and too centralized. But they’re okay in my opinion, in the grand scheme of things. …

I too prefer Cloudflare for domain registration. However, for the past month I’m facing payment issues and received absolutely no support from them. Had to switch to Namecheap for the time being. By the way, are ccTLDs reliable enough? .cv domains were $3 until atleast a couple weeks back and now t…

As others said, you can get a domain in cloudflare. I use it along with cloudflare pages with static websites through GitHub integration. Works like a charm for me.

Probably off-topic, sorry: does anyone consider registry privacy practices? They’re usually leaky monopolies or shady private equity operators.

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