14 DAY TRIAL // CloudFlare, one of the leading companies in regards to CDN and DDoS mitigation services, has announced it will be launching its own domain name registrar service focused on security.
"Even in CloudFlare's own search for a high-security registrar, we didn't find anything that met our security standard," says Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare. "Rather than waiting for one to come onto the market, we built our own, fundamentally changing the way Registrar security is offered today."
The company's new service takes aim directly at larger companies that were the victims of DNS hijacking attacks, which redirected their users to malicious servers instead of the real ones.
CloudFlare's secure registrar service will work on the principle that companies would need to have multiple employees that would approve any change to the domain name's settings at the same time.
This eliminates the possibility of an attacker hijacking the domain just by altering a few entries in a DNS server.
Even better and a lot more useful, CloudFlare is also tackling the issue of accidentally expired domain names. All domains registered with CloudFlare will be automatically renewed by CloudFlare itself, one full year before they expire, and they will then bill the client during the upcoming year.
The new service, named CloudFlare Registrar, is ICANN-approved and available starting today. No prices are listed on CloudFlare's website, but don't expect it to compete with GoDaddy.
