Great video! I am very new to domain buying. I am just trying to get a domain name with privacy for now. Would you recommend going with Cloudflare vs Namecheap or Porkbun?
Let's face it. Every company is entitled to make some profit. There are running cost that selling a domain "at cost" would not serve the company a good deal and it will collapse very soon after. Cloudflare is selling a lot of things and probably that selling domains "at cost" for this company is a way to attract customers to sign up for other domains/hosting/services related to their needs and this is where Cloudflare is making its money. I think you are a bit harsh in your statement saying "why are the other registrars charging more than cost price?"... Not sure if you run your own business. Maybe you do with RUclips. You have probably either run or work for another company. Imagine how much you would get paid if there is no profits, I mean if a product is not sold with a margin for the company to pay salaries and other expenses...
It stopped. "Due to changes in the Registry pricing, our fees for the following TLDs will be changing. All transactions, including auto-renewals, that occur on or after the effective date will be billed at the new price. As a reminder, renewals can be submitted manually at any time." $10.16 -> $20.16, effective January 1, 2023. Sorry for those who registered at Cloudflare for the price, thinking that it will continue to be cheap in 2023🤷
Cloudflare domains does not allow you to change the nameservers. That’s one of the caveats I cover in this video. You will need to use Cloudflare DNS to point the domain to your website.
so what are some other disavantages of not being able to point Cloudfare’s domains to external namesevers? Like besides Wix, can you not use Wordpress? Like can you not use a Cloudflare domain with Namecheap’s email service?
Stay as far away from Cloudflare as you can, nothing is free. I am a Cloudflare customer and if you do not fall into one of their "paying tiers" you get no customer service and responses (if any) will be cut and paste responses which will never address the problem. Guys like this one touting Cloudflare have no clue how Cloudflare actually works, I kid you not it will be an absolute nightmare. If you don't believe me try it for yourself lol but don't say I didn't warn ya!! It's impossible to change nameservers with this cheap domain trap. Cloudflare = Absolute Hell = Cheap Domain = Traps made by guys like these to lure you into paying more. I'm speaking from first hand experience.
I am interested in CF for the tunneling feature- do they (CF) have HOSTING (such as ftp) option available? I do not see any reference to hosting service. Tnx.
I was looking into maybe transferring a couple of my namecheap domains that were about to renew to cloudfare to save a few bucks but it looked like too much of a hassle. Finally, I was able to find a coupon code for my renewal and I applied it to my namecheap domains getting almost the same price I would've gotten with Cloudflare. Guys, always google renewal coupon codes for your registrar before renewing! You may be saving good $ and avoid the hassle of transferring them. And try different ones also! I tried with two at first, but the third coupon worked!
Cloudflare makes a ton of money on their enterprise services. They aren’t hurting for money at all, and they have said they are offering this at cost domain service as a passion project to better the Internet. I get being skeptical, because companies are here to make money, but I would think of it like a massive corporation like Google or Apple offering some free storage space on a server with your account. It’s nothing to them as far as resources go, and they are focused on bigger things.
Do a little research on how Cloudfare treats their employees. A company that doesn't treat it's employees ethically will also be horrible to their clients too!
@@lucahoffmann8695I imagine their host may require using their own DNS, but Cloudflare also requires you to use their DNS. Cloudflare is great is you don't mind using Cloudflare's DNS. If you plan on using DNS elsewhere, Cloudflare sucks. Depends on what you need.
Instead of pointing to a "nameserver", you need to ask your host which IP address you should point your A record to. Then, you can create an A record for yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com pointing to the IP address of the web host's server. Cloudflare is a manual DNS manager, so you will have to configure the DNS yourself if you choose to register your domains at Cloudflare.
I bought a domain from cloudflare a while back and its been sitting unused. I genuinely regret it to be honest Before buying I couldn't find anywhere it stated you need a business account ($200/month) just to change nameservers effectively rendering the domain useless
You could always transfer it to another registrar. As transfers usually add a year on top of whatever remaining time the domain had, you won't lose out. I've actually done this in the past where I transferred a domain out to a registrar that had a great deal on renewals, added a load of years, then transferred back to my preferred provider all in the same day.
GoDaddy ad right before this video 😂
Great info, I love having domains on Cloudflare but didn't know about the transfer restrictions.
What about domain privacy?
Great video! I am very new to domain buying. I am just trying to get a domain name with privacy for now. Would you recommend going with Cloudflare vs Namecheap or Porkbun?
Let's face it. Every company is entitled to make some profit. There are running cost that selling a domain "at cost" would not serve the company a good deal and it will collapse very soon after. Cloudflare is selling a lot of things and probably that selling domains "at cost" for this company is a way to attract customers to sign up for other domains/hosting/services related to their needs and this is where Cloudflare is making its money.
I think you are a bit harsh in your statement saying "why are the other registrars charging more than cost price?"...
Not sure if you run your own business. Maybe you do with RUclips. You have probably either run or work for another company. Imagine how much you would get paid if there is no profits, I mean if a product is not sold with a margin for the company to pay salaries and other expenses...
It stopped.
"Due to changes in the Registry pricing, our fees for the following TLDs will be changing. All transactions, including auto-renewals, that occur on or after the effective date will be billed at the new price. As a reminder, renewals can be submitted manually at any time." $10.16 -> $20.16, effective January 1, 2023. Sorry for those who registered at Cloudflare for the price, thinking that it will continue to be cheap in 2023🤷
Where did you get this information from?
Rats, that stinks. I didn't register but was contemplating it.
i bought a cloudflare domain and i cant change nameserver and i am stressed out. Kinldy help
Cloudflare domains does not allow you to change the nameservers. That’s one of the caveats I cover in this video. You will need to use Cloudflare DNS to point the domain to your website.
so what are some other disavantages of not being able to point Cloudfare’s domains to external namesevers? Like besides Wix, can you not use Wordpress? Like can you not use a Cloudflare domain with Namecheap’s email service?
I'm trying to figure that out, I had a wordpress site, and now I can't figure out how to get my site up.
Stay as far away from Cloudflare as you can, nothing is free. I am a Cloudflare customer and if you do not fall into one of their "paying tiers" you get no customer service and responses (if any) will be cut and paste responses which will never address the problem. Guys like this one touting Cloudflare have no clue how Cloudflare actually works, I kid you not it will be an absolute nightmare. If you don't believe me try it for yourself lol but don't say I didn't warn ya!! It's impossible to change nameservers with this cheap domain trap. Cloudflare = Absolute Hell = Cheap Domain = Traps made by guys like these to lure you into paying more. I'm speaking from first hand experience.
Thank you so much!
I am interested in CF for the tunneling feature- do they (CF) have HOSTING (such as ftp) option available? I do not see any reference to hosting service. Tnx.
I was looking into maybe transferring a couple of my namecheap domains that were about to renew to cloudfare to save a few bucks but it looked like too much of a hassle. Finally, I was able to find a coupon code for my renewal and I applied it to my namecheap domains getting almost the same price I would've gotten with Cloudflare. Guys, always google renewal coupon codes for your registrar before renewing! You may be saving good $ and avoid the hassle of transferring them. And try different ones also! I tried with two at first, but the third coupon worked!
How can I get coupon code
@@victorchidiebere4058 just google namecheal coupon codes and try all the coupons that come in the results, some might not work but some do
The domain transfer restrictions are puzzling.
You can forward to coming to external nameservers with NS record in cloudflare for subdomains but I haven't tried it with the root @ .
I don't get it.
It does not seem like a good deal to me.
Is there a catch?
They have to make money somehow.
Cloudflare makes a ton of money on their enterprise services. They aren’t hurting for money at all, and they have said they are offering this at cost domain service as a passion project to better the Internet. I get being skeptical, because companies are here to make money, but I would think of it like a massive corporation like Google or Apple offering some free storage space on a server with your account. It’s nothing to them as far as resources go, and they are focused on bigger things.
@@Craylor OK. That seems reasonable. Thanks.
How do is use my cloudflare domain on wix can I transfer it? how do I do that?
does anyone know if i can have regular email routing to a email client using cloudflare WITHOUT forwarding?
What is best registar with 50+ domains and one that has a good website builder?
Do a little research on how Cloudfare treats their employees. A company that doesn't treat it's employees ethically will also be horrible to their clients too!
I just fall in love with this channel
Thanks for your support!
Cheap domains are good for testing - take a $3 domain for a year if it doesn't wok ditch it.
So how do they stay in business ?
does it have domain privacy for free? is there a 3 years discount???
Great explanation
I love cloudflare!
Don’t buy domain from Cloud-flare, it’s nightmare to connect your host
Agreed, they are total scammers.
@@djones394 What do you mean exactly? What happened and why is it a nightmare to connect your host?
I never had any issues with cloudflare and have all my domains on it. What exactly was the problem you are having?
@@lucahoffmann8695I imagine their host may require using their own DNS, but Cloudflare also requires you to use their DNS. Cloudflare is great is you don't mind using Cloudflare's DNS. If you plan on using DNS elsewhere, Cloudflare sucks. Depends on what you need.
is it ok to just buy a domain name to set up a custom domain email?
if i have a host How can i use domain from cloudfaire pointing to my host name server
Instead of pointing to a "nameserver", you need to ask your host which IP address you should point your A record to. Then, you can create an A record for yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com pointing to the IP address of the web host's server. Cloudflare is a manual DNS manager, so you will have to configure the DNS yourself if you choose to register your domains at Cloudflare.
what are those monthly prices?
Yearly.
I bought a domain from cloudflare a while back and its been sitting unused. I genuinely regret it to be honest
Before buying I couldn't find anywhere it stated you need a business account ($200/month) just to change nameservers effectively rendering the domain useless
You could always transfer it to another registrar. As transfers usually add a year on top of whatever remaining time the domain had, you won't lose out. I've actually done this in the past where I transferred a domain out to a registrar that had a great deal on renewals, added a load of years, then transferred back to my preferred provider all in the same day.
Same boat here! Really unlucky, I guess I will now wait 60 more days and transfer it...
@@PixeIPenguin Good point, I forgot about the 60 day transfer lock. Mine was a .uk domain where that doesn't apply.
@@Degenerate76 Darn... Sorry to hear that.
IT'S TIME TO STOP
I put that line in just for you 🤣
They increased prices
May be a hornets nest of problems because they require that they be your Primary DNS server. This requires a full setup and hidden fees.
Cloudflare has no hidden fees. They’ve always had a forever free plan for basic DNS.
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I’ve always believed “namecheap” are overpriced than most! Despite the name