Registrar

Cloudflare Registrar sells domains at wholesale cost with no markup, no renewal bait-and-switch, and no upsell screens trying to sell you email hosting and site builders. After decades of registrar dark patterns, it’s almost disorienting.

Domains automatically use Cloudflare DNS, WHOIS redaction is standard, and transfers in are smooth for supported TLDs. For a personal portfolio of mainstream TLDs, it’s hard to beat.

Two points off, and they show up as the portfolio grows. Billing errors happen more than they should for a product whose whole pitch is boring predictability, and when something goes wrong, registrar support is thin — domains are the one product where a slow support loop can mean an outage or a loss. There’s also no real API for managing registrant contact info, which turns bulk updates across many domains into painful one-at-a-time dashboard work. Add the familiar caveats — TLD coverage gaps, Cloudflare nameservers required — and it’s an 8: still the default recommendation, no longer an unqualified one.