Cloudflare Cloudflare 8th Birthday Week Announcements

eva2000 · Sep 25, 2018

This week is Cloudflare's 8th birthday celebration and they are making a week's worth of new product/service and feature announcements on their blog. There looks like there will be a few announcements later in the week related to faster internet and better site and internet security so keep an eye out

Every announcement this week ties back to helping to build a better Internet in some way. Here is a preview of this week’s releases:

On Monday, we are releasing something that will make the Internet more private and secure for every user.

On Tuesday, we are leading the way democratizing a new Internet standard, while also making the Internet faster.

On Wednesday, we are bringing together a coalition of partners to help our customers lower their infrastructure costs — dramatically.

On Thursday, our actual birthday, we are releasing a new service we hope you’ll love that provides something that every one of our customers needs, but now with the best security and lowest price.

On Friday, we are releasing a new product that pushes the power of the Internet forward by making it more programmable.

I often get asked what makes Cloudflare special? My answer always comes back to the people I work with and our partners who work passionately to delight our customers. The Cloudflare team comes to work every day to solve the tough challenges of the Internet to ultimately help build a better Internet going forward. This week, I am excited to share our work with all of you.

Every day, we will be posting a blog post at 1200 UTC with that day’s announcement. We will do a round up at the end of the week as well. I can’t wait to hear what you think!
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Monday September 24, 2018 - Announced Encrypted SNI (ESNI)

Encrypting SNI: Fixing One of the Core Internet Bugs

Encrypt it or lose it: how encrypted SNI works

Tuesday September 25, 2018 - QUIC

Get a head start with QUIC

The QUICening

Wednesday September 26, 2018 - Bandwidth Alliance

Introducing the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks

Thursday September 27, 2018 - Cloudflare Domain Registrar

Introducing Cloudflare Registrar: Domain Registration You Can Love

Cloudflare Registrar: what happens when you register a domain?

Friday September 28, 2018 - Cloudflare Worker KV (Distributed Key Value Store)

Introducing Workers KV

Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store

eva2000 · Sep 26, 2018

Yay Cloudflare has announced support for QUIC protocol

Get a head start with QUIC

The QUICening

Beta stage right now

eva2000 · Sep 28, 2018

Yup latest announcement, Cloudflare Domain Registrar Introducing Cloudflare Registrar: Domain Registration You Can Love and Cloudflare Registrar: what happens when you register a domain?

Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Registrar, the first domain registrar you can love. Cloudflare Registrar will never charge you more than what we pay to the registry for your domain. No markup and no surprise fees. For eight years Cloudflare has built products that make the internet faster and safer. It's time for us to start where your internet journey starts, your domain.
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Cloudflare has actually run a registrar for some time. Like many of our best products, it started by solving an internal issue we had. Cloudflare has several mission-critical domains. If the registration of these domains were ever compromised, it would be, in a word, bad.

For years, we worked with our original domain registrar to ensure these domains were as locked down as possible. Unfortunately, in 2013, a hacker was able to compromise several of the systems of the registrar we used and come perilously close to taking over some of our domains.

That began a process of us looking for a better registrar. Unfortunately, even the registrars that charge hefty premiums and promise to be very secure turn out to have pretty lousy security. We ultimately decided the only way to get the level of security we needed was to build a registrar ourselves.

Custom Domain Protection for the Ultra High End
A handful of our customers noticed we had our own registrar and asked us about it. Those conversations turned into our Enterprise Registrar product with Custom Domain Protection for our most security-conscious clients. Every client using Custom Domain Protection defines their own process for updating records. For instance, if a Custom Domain Protection client wants us to not change their DNS records unless 6 different individuals call us, in order, from a set of predefined phone numbers, each reading multiple unique pass codes, and telling us their favorite ice cream flavor, on a Tuesday that is also a full moon, we will enforce that. Literally.
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Supported TLDs is constantly being added to but current list is at TLD Policies | Cloudflare

eva2000 · Sep 29, 2018

Next Cloudflare birthday announcement for Cloudflare Worker KV (Distributed Key Value Store)

Introducing Workers KV

Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store

eva2000 · Sep 30, 2018

So all the birthday goodies wrap up at Birthday Week Wrap-Up: Every day is launch day at Cloudflare

Monday September 24, 2018 - Announced Encrypted SNI (ESNI)

Encrypting SNI: Fixing One of the Core Internet Bugs

Encrypt it or lose it: how encrypted SNI works

Tuesday September 25, 2018 - QUIC

Get a head start with QUIC

The QUICening

Wednesday September 26, 2018 - Bandwidth Alliance

Introducing the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks

Thursday September 27, 2018 - Cloudflare Domain Registrar

Introducing Cloudflare Registrar: Domain Registration You Can Love

Cloudflare Registrar: what happens when you register a domain?

Friday September 28, 2018 - Cloudflare Worker KV (Distributed Key Value Store)

Introducing Workers KV

Building With Workers KV, a Fast Distributed Key-Value Store

eva2000 · Sep 30, 2018

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Wednesday September 26, 2018 - Bandwidth Alliance

Introducing the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks

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sweet Linode is part of this Bandwidth Alliance Bandwidth Alliance - Linode | Cloudflare

Commitment
Linode is excited to partner with the Bandwidth Alliance. This partnership will enable us to continue our mission of accelerating the world's adoption of cloud computing by helping reduce the cost of data transfer for our customers.

Bandwidth Alliance Pricing
Linode bundles generous amounts of transfer (and other resources) across our plans and services. In the coming months, through this partnership we will further improve that value by making data transfer free between Linode and Cloudflare for our mutual customers.
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As is DigitalOcean Bandwidth Alliance - Digital Ocean | Cloudflare

Commitment
DigitalOcean is excited to partner with the Bandwidth Alliance. Providing customers with transparent pricing that delivers the highest level of price-to-performance is something we pride ourselves on. We will continue to provide significant amounts of bandwidth or data transfer for our compute and storage products at no additional cost.

Bandwidth Alliance Pricing
DigitalOcean already includes significant amount of bandwidth. We will be rolling out our program to waive bandwidth fees for mutual customers with Cloudflare over the subsequent months.
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eva2000 · Nov 16, 2018

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Wednesday September 26, 2018 - Bandwidth Alliance

Introducing the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks

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Looks like Vultr was added as a partner Expanding the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks

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