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> but by then your domain may already be permanently deleted/expired or sniped by a 3rd party Or snapped by Cloudflare themselves. > Cloudflare may, at its di
by rtsil 4y ago
> but by then your domain may already be permanently deleted/expired or sniped by a 3rd party
Or snapped by Cloudflare themselves.
> Cloudflare may, at its discretion, elect to assume the registration and may hold it in its own account, delete it, or sell it to a third party. [1]
[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/ https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/
- gnu8 4y agoWhy wouldn't they pull that as soon as a startup customer becomes successful?
- Aeolun 4y agoThe inevitable fallout? I imagine those steps are something they hope to only ever invoke on clearly illegal enterprises.
- viraptor 4y agoWhy would they? Owning the domain doesn't mean they own a business. They would just kill their own source of income. (And any potential future income from that company)
- zerocrates 4y agoThat specific "we can do whatever" language is only for domains that you didn't renew on time. They have some separate terms that allow similar things, in specified categories of abuse and related stuff.
- cortesoft 4y agoWhy would they ever do that? That isn't going to standup in court, you can't just take over another company with a line in your TOS
- wging 4y agoWhile I don't want to fully defend Cloudflare's customer-hostile practices here, it's worth noting that the text you quote is only for if a domain expires: > In the event that Registrant fails to renew the domain name in a timely fashion, the registration will expire and Cloudflare may, at its discretion, elect to assume the registration and may hold it in its own account, delete it, or sell it to a third party. I mention this because without that context it looks even worse.
- rtsil 4y agoI am not sure the context makes it less worse. If they alter the domain status to pendingdelete, as stated by the OP, the domain is de facto expired. And the same Domain Registration Agreement gives them the unlimited right, at their sole discretion, to modify the registration of a domain for a number of reasons, for which it seems you have no other recourse than hoping to be on the frontpage of HN even if such decisions were unfounded.