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> The affected domains represent a big loss for Cloudflare, with .tk, .cf and .gq previously accounting for 23.1% of all domains hosted on its platform – and ne

> The affected domains represent a big loss for Cloudflare, with .tk, .cf and .gq previously accounting for 23.1% of all domains hosted on its platform – and nearly all of these have now gone. I'm not sure in what way this is a "loss". I doubt cloudflare is losing money (or revenue) here. Especially if many of these domains are spammy, it seems like this is probably not much of anything for them.

jacurtis 3y ago
This was my thought while reading this. Overall I think this is a net-win for CloudFlare. I suspect that exactly 0.00% of the 12.6 million domains they just "lost" were paying customers. Considering the people didn't want to pay for a domain, they probably weren't paying for a CDN either. I'm sure Cloudflare will be able to wipe away their tears of this loss using the extra dollar bills they have from reducing their bandwidth costs.