tomklein

I believe it was StartSSL and/or WoSign back then

Check https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqYNuULEypMnp4i5pR... (linked from https://blog.cloudflare.com/friendly-bots/) if you didn’t already.

Disclaimer: I work at CF

iirc, custom DNS at CF refers to using your own subdomains as name servers for CF instead of the regular *.ns.cloudflare.com. Basically a form of whitelabelling.

Specifying 3rd party name servers as your domain’s name server was (still is?) not possible with Cloudflare Registrar.

(Disclaimer: I work there)

Amazon owns .free - http://nic.free/

Actually, you can assign (not transfer) IP ranges and the one advertising it does not need to own it, but would need a Letter of Authorization (LoA) or similar.

Google now has a publicly available ACME-compatible CA. For CF’s Universal SSL (default/free) Cloudflare may use Google’s CA. But may choose other providers. For Advanced Certificate Manager (paid addon), you can choose Google or other CAs for Cloudflare.

But basically Google would be the one that is issuing an SSL cert for a website. Same as LetsEncrypt.

Disclaimer: CF employee

Swapfiets builds their own bikes and does not - never ever - sell them. If one gets stolen, it can‘t be resold without one noticing it’s stolen, as these are not in circulation in the first place and still owned by the company that built them

Freenom has free TLDs (.tk, .cf, ….)

The cheapest over time will be .de with as less as 4€ a year depending on the registrar. The cheapest first year domain used to be .xyz with 0.99$ at Namecheap

I run my own email server an never had any issues with email deliverability. There must be a reason for these bounces. Any SMTP logs?

Wouldn’t the one publishing these PII on a website be in breach of the GDPR rather than Google who just crawls it?

Or alternatively, a DNS lookup + WHOIS of the IP to get the Abuse contact of the hosting provider

For CF, we send out these status pages manually. It's usually delayed due to wording, but not to tamper with the SLA. We do keep track of the accurate times AFAIK.

Disclaimer: I work @ CF

Glad to know that in such a catastrophical event, the military at least got permission to use Amazon Lumberyard for live combat.

Google LLC is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Don’t know about Facebook/Meta though

What if the site owners change their SSL settings to Full SSL though?

Original Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29810733

The first 1024 are reserved and you usually can freely choose the ones greater than that. You can also use .local for local domains.