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Cloudflare now has a registrar service FYI: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/products/registrar/

>>rozenm+(OP)
About a year ago I helped a friend transfer all her domains from GoDaddy to CloudFlare. Her card got jacked so she ended up in the same scenario of no available payment method.

Except with CloudFlare, she didn’t notice it was lapsed until they modified her DNS. The domain was in REGISTRAR HOLD state. We couldn’t do anything via the UI. Reaching out to CF support had a misfire, because the first support rep thought it was about CDN not Registrar. A couple of polite emails (and like 60 days) (she did not make it a priority to resolve) later, the domain was restored. I was kind of surprised because I thought some kind of ICANN hammer drops right about 60 days and forces an auction.

Anyway, my highest accolades for registrar go to CloudFlare.

>>rozenm+(OP)
So far I haven't read or heard about CF being part of horror stories like this one but apparently their support is incredibly slow, whether systemically neglected or over-encumbered. There was recently a Tell/Ask HN story about how they had taken days to repair a domain suddenly becoming unresolvable because of something relating to CF's own infrastructure. I have acquaintances who on two separate occasions, despite being on thousands-of-dollars-per-month terms with CF, have had support errands run for months without a single update on the support ticket.

>>rozenm+(OP)
I just recently migrated all (4) of my domains from google domains to cloudflare. Some of them (.cafe) because it was 50% cheaper (20ish bucks instead of 40) and others (.com) because even through the price was ~ the same ($9ish vs 12) I still wanted to decrease how load-bearing my google account was.

The transfer was quite smooth. It was easy to turn off the cloudflare "protection" (my sites don't need it (yet?) and I didn't want to have to think about it, the threat model, tls stuff, etc). And so far no problems.

>>CodeWr+N1
> Except with CloudFlare, she didn’t notice it was lapsed until they modified her DNS.

> Anyway, my highest accolades for registrar go to CloudFlare.

Er. Is that really the conclusion here? Did you mean to mention that they sent her a warning email in advance and she just missed it? Because the way you've written it makes it sound like CF still screwed up but made it possible to eventually recover.