Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price

Posted by jaequery on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:40PM
from the self-post dept.

"Cloudflare Registrar offers wholesale pricing for all TLDs - you pay what we pay. You won't find better value."

Cloudflare seems positioned to take over the web. No doubt cloud hosting is next in line.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by jgrahamc on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:47PM (#19789577)

Haven't we done this for a long time? https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-registrar/

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by scrollaway on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:10PM (#19789822)

Do you sell domains now? Last I tried, you only allow transferring domains into cloudflare, not purchasing new ones. And that was for a very limited set of TLDs.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by jgrahamc on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:14PM (#19789855)

No, transfer only.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by scrollaway on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @05:34PM (#19792190)

Is there a particular reason Cloudflare isn't selling new domains? Or is it just a way to slowly scale up to that?

I'd personally love to move my domain buying off Gandi and to Cloudflare, mainly for programmability / API reasons (buying domains with terraform? yes please)

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by jgrahamc on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:41AM (#19795236)

It's just a question of building out the infrastructure. We'll get there.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by jaequery on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:52PM (#19789617)

Perhaps they are out of beta today? I just received an email from them today saying they are now introducing Cloudflare Registrar.

Either way, this is pretty game changing imo.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by gscott on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:10AM (#19856554)

I thought this was good but if you want to use CNAMES with CloudFlare dns it is $240 month per domain.

So expect to pay $2,862.05 more per year then GoDaddy per domain... If you transfer over 20 domains the cost is $57,241 more per year.

I have moved over several domains. The dns on the surface looks totally normal. They brought over all of my dns information including cnames. But then the DKIM for Amazon SES started failing and I did a lookup on the DNS and figured this all out.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by gruez on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:54PM (#19789628)

Looks like they only do renewals/transfer, no new registrations.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by 5580 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @02:19PM (#19790523)

This is correct. Made me sad when I couldn't purchase. I renew my existing domains there. Only 300-ish days before I will renew my new domain here for $8.

Also, they don't renew "premium" domains.

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by eberfreitas on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:21PM (#19789928)

Say I wanna sell domains myself. Should I contact a company with reselling plans? Is there a more direct way of doing it?

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Re:Cloudflare now sells domains at a wholesale price by gscott on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:14AM (#19856574)

It depends if you have a million dollars or are planning to invest a few thousand dollars. I am sure Network Solutions would wholesale you domain names if you buy enough up-front. Plunk down the cool million and get started. Otherwise find the best affiliate program.

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