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Cloudflare Launches a Low-Cost Domain Registrar, Which Will Also Offer Free Privacy To Customers (arstechnica.com)
Cloudflare, which is celebrating its eighth birthday has announced yet another service: an at-cost domain registrar. From a report: While Cloudflare had already been handling domain registration through the company's Enterprise Registrar service, that service was intended for some of Cloudflare's high-end customers who wanted extra levels of security for their domain names. The new domain registrar business -- called Cloudflare Registrar -- will eventually be open to anyone, and it will charge exactly what it costs for Cloudflare to register a domain. As Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post this week, "We promise to never charge you anything more than the wholesale price each TLD charges." That includes the small fee assessed by ICANN for each registration.
Prince said that he was motivated to take the company into the registrar business because of Cloudflare's own experience with registrars and by the perception that many registrars are in the business mostly to up-sell things that require no additional effort. "All the registrar does is record you as the owner of a particular domain," Prince said. "That just involves sending some commands to an API. In other words, domain registrars are charging you for being a middle-man and delivering essentially no value to justify their markup." Charging overhead for that sort of service, Prince said, "seemed as nutty to us as certificate authorities charging to run a bit of math." (Cloudflare also provides free SSL certificates.)
Prince said that he was motivated to take the company into the registrar business because of Cloudflare's own experience with registrars and by the perception that many registrars are in the business mostly to up-sell things that require no additional effort. "All the registrar does is record you as the owner of a particular domain," Prince said. "That just involves sending some commands to an API. In other words, domain registrars are charging you for being a middle-man and delivering essentially no value to justify their markup." Charging overhead for that sort of service, Prince said, "seemed as nutty to us as certificate authorities charging to run a bit of math." (Cloudflare also provides free SSL certificates.)
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By-pass shit like CloudFlare.
Anyone who attempts to create an internet that the US and 'Five-Eyes' nations cannot control and cannot ID and track down those using it will be destroyed, or outright killed as a last resort.
The US government and other Western governments like the UK and EU well know that the internet is one of, if not the greatest, threat to their authoritarian power and hegemony if not tightly under their control and monitoring.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
It's basically prejudice + power, both items need to present
This definition was invented by racist minority people who want to believe they aren't racist and have free reign to say whatever hateful, spiteful thing that they want.
When you buy a domain name these days for a small business, do you want to log into a separate site to manage 1) the website 2) the dns 3) the whois 4) cloudflare.
No of course not. You buy all the services from one place, and then you go on to buy the next website from them, and the next.
They can be the first to race to the bottom with domain name registration fees. Used to be you had to pay to get whois protection, now everyone has it for free. This is the good part of capitalism, the costs to "provide" this "service" are extremely low. It was never worth $10 as a service charge. Whats that for? so they can send 20% of the money to icann for me? And the rest goes to a few database edits by an automated program?
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