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Cloudflare now allows registering new domains

Tadhg Lewis — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:38:12 +0000

You may already know but Cloudflare posted a blog on Sep 27, 2018 Introducing Cloudflare Registrar.

Cloudflare had many benefits like zero mark-up purcahses. This means that you pay the wholesale price that Cloudflare pays, this is unlike all (most?) other registrars that add their own fee on top of the ICANN fee.

The downside to this was that Cloudflare was only allowing transferring existing domains to their registrar, until today.

I have just been through our company Cloudflare account and noticed a new button on the home page :D

Looks like you can now register new domains through Cloudflare. This may be a staged roll out and it seems another Cloudflare account didn't have access to this button.

Here is what the searching looks like!

Oh and if you are interested in getting a status page for your website checkout my other dev.to post, I built a status page using React and GitHub Issues

I built a status page using React and GitHub Issues

Tadhg Lewis — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:18:54 +0000

So recently I've been having a look at status pages and haven't really found any that I felt worked for me. so I decided to create one myself.

Ideally I wanted a free and simple status page but most I found were either self-hosted or had to be built each time a Component is updated or an Incident is reported.

I created it using React and the GitHub API so there is no need to rebuild and redeploy when you add an Incident or update a Component, simply update the GitHub Issue and the status page will update live.

Here are some of the features

Easy setup
Component reporting to show the current status of your services
Incident reporting
Hosting on GitHub Pages or other hosting providers
Live updating status page
Use Zapier Triggers to update the status page
Easy integration with services and monitoring

GitHub
Demo

Let me know what you think of the idea and the project overall :)