where to get cheap domains?

porkbun, namesilo and namecheap depending on domain extension for initial rego and then move it to cloudflare domain registrar after 60+ days https://community.centminmod.com/th...strar-transfers-reduced-my-costs-by-37.16038/

all have free whois privacy so no cost for that.

 

right now cloudflare doesn't do new domain registrations, so if it's new domain registration you need to use a normal domain registrar and then transfer to cloudflare domain registrar after 60 days

if it's existing domain you already own, then just need to transfer to cloudflare domain registrar.

 

Don't confuse amazon aws cloudfront cdn versus cloudflare domain registrar. centminmod.com uses Cloudflare for CDN/WAF/web acceleration only right now. I have yet to move centminmod.com to Cloudflare domain registrar as I am moving my domains in order of closest to expiry date first and centminmod.com is on the back end of the list as I pre-register my important domains 10+ yrs in advance so there's still alot of time before centminmod.com expires

 

I pluck domain expiry into Google Calender reminders

But yes moving before closer to domain expiry means you need to spend $$$ now as opposed to later even though the transfer adds +1 yr to your expiry, you still need to pay now. When to transfer depends on your domain registrar and how they do auto renewal. For example namesilo auto renews domains on 1st of the month in which the domain is due to expire. So if domain expires May 28th, namesilo auto renews that domain on May 1st. So I have to make sure I transfer that domain before May 1st so that namesilo doesn't do an auto renewal Different domain registrars will do auto renewal differently so when you transfer will vary.