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Seems like these announcements were part of Cloudflare's "Birthday Week"[1]

More features that weren't mentioned by OP:

- CF released an email routing feature

- They released their domain name registrar (you could previously only transfer, but now you can also register domain names) using wholesale prices. I'd also classify this as a "disruption" because CF is not taking any profit with this one (but they have a lot to gain in terms of data if you route your domain traffic through them.)

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/birthday-week/



One thing that most folks aren't aware is that Cloudflare registrar requires usage of their nameservers. It's understandable, they are selling domains without a markup and need to make money in other ways. For those that want to use a custom nameserver, Porkbun is a great choice.


What is their business model around having your DNS traffic? Selling your "who looked you up and how many times" data? I am struggling to see what secondary income this enables.


It makes it extremely easy (and therefore more likely) to use CloudFlare as a CDN/DDoS protection. Just a simple toggle, if they're your DNS server.


to own all the eggs


The registrar service has been here for some times, but previously you need to transfer domain in instead of register new domain.


Yep, was aware of this, but forgot to mention it. Edited the comment, thanks!




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