Cloudflare Registrar
- Free allowance
- Not free. Registration, transfer and renewal at or below what registries and ICANN charge, with no markup
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price statedsee Price below
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe domain must be moved onto Cloudflare nameservers before it can be registered or renewed here
- Evidence
- reported22 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-14checked 2026-10-30 (live); stale on 2026-11-14
| Free tier | not free. Registration, transfer and renewal at or below what registries and ICANN charge, with no markup unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 10.46 per .com per year, registration and renewal alike |
| Limits |
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| Identity | card a payment method; no markup is charged but the registry fee is |
| Egress | not applicable to a registrar |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a domain name |
| Retention | a registration runs for its term and renews at the registry and ICANN list price, with no markup |
| Interface | rest, cli the Cloudflare dashboard and API; the domain must use Cloudflare nameservers |
| Tooling | the Cloudflare API, Terraform, the dashboard |
| Composes with | the anchor of the cheapest complete public endpoint: registrar plus free DNS plus free Universal SSL plus a free tunnel |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The .com row is the finding: USD 10.46 for registration and for renewal, with the ICANN fee inside the price. A promo registrar is cheaper in year one; from year two the renewal decides, so compare renewals with any ICANN fee charged on top added. |
| Evidence note | reported Cloudflare's own pages prove the at-cost model, that the ICANN fee is inside the price, the .uk transfer terms, and which TLDs are offered. The per-TLD prices come from a third-party table, cfdomainpricing.com, because Cloudflare's public search prices one name at a time as it is typed and publishes no per-TLD list. A per-TLD price read from Cloudflare's own search or API would raise it to documented. |
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Evidence 22
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ | 'Registration, transfer, and renewal prices are always at or below what registries and ICANN charge us'; 'does not mark up domain prices at all' |
| 2026-10-22 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | a table headed 'Updated 2026-10-21' giving registration and renewal per TLD: .com USD 10.46 and USD 10.46, .org 8.50 and 11.20, .net 11.86 and 11.86, .xyz 12.30 and 11.20, .dev 8.20 and 12.20, .online 4.99 and 27.70, .io 32.00 and 50.00, .cc 8.00 and 8.00 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ | prices are at or below the registry and ICANN charge for all three operations |
| 2026-10-30 | developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/ | renewal is charged at the registry and ICANN list price |
| 2026-10-30 | developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/ | the ICANN fee is part of the at-cost price |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | a third-party table of Cloudflare registration and renewal prices, in USD, updated 2026-10-30 |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .com registration and renewal price at Cloudflare Registrar |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .org registration and renewal price at Cloudflare Registrar |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .net registration and renewal price at Cloudflare Registrar |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .xyz registration and renewal price at Cloudflare Registrar |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .uk registration and renewal price at Cloudflare Registrar |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .cc registration and renewal price at Cloudflare Registrar |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .vip registration and renewal price at Cloudflare Registrar |
| 2026-10-30 | domains.cloudflare.com/api/tlds | the alphabetical supported-TLD feed has no .top entry where it would sort |
| 2026-10-30 | domains.cloudflare.com/api/tlds | the alphabetical supported-TLD feed has no .de entry where it would sort |
| 2026-10-30 | domains.cloudflare.com/api/tlds | the alphabetical supported-TLD feed has no .eu entry where it would sort |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/ | the TLD policies list carries com, net, org, uk, cc, vip and xyz and no top, de or eu |
| 2026-10-30 | developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/transfer-dom | .uk transfers carry no transfer fee; gTLD transfers include a one-year extension |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | .com registration and renewal both USD 10.46 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ | Cloudflare's public page prices names through a typed search, not a list |
| 2026-10-30 | developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/transfer-dom | a domain at Cloudflare Registrar must use Cloudflare nameservers |
| 2026-10-30 | cfdomainpricing.com/ | third-party table: .com USD 10.46 registration and renewal, unchanged |
More fields 3
| icann fee | included: the price is the registry and ICANN list price with no markup |
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| tld price terms | USD; at cost, no promotional or coupon price; Cloudflare's own pages give no per-TLD figure, so the per-TLD rows are from the third-party table at cfdomainpricing.com (updated 2026-10-30) |
| tld prices | {"com": "first year USD 10.46; renewal USD 10.46; transfer unverified: no per-TLD transfer figure on any public page","org": "first year USD 8.50; renewal USD 11.20; transfer unverified: no per-TLD transfer figure on any public page","net": "first year USD 11.86; renewal USD 11.86; transfer unverified: no per-TLD transfer figure on any public page","xyz": "first year USD 12.30; renewal USD 11.20; transfer unverified: no per-TLD transfer figure on any public page","uk": "first year USD 5.30; renewal USD 5.30; transfer: no transfer fee and no added year, per the transfer guide","cc": "first year USD 8.00; renewal USD 8.00; transfer unverified: no per-TLD transfer figure on any public page","vip": "first year USD 15.20; renewal USD 15.20; transfer unverified: no per-TLD transfer figure on any public page","top": "not offered: .top is absent from the supported-TLD feed and the TLD policies list","de": "not offered: .de is absent from the supported-TLD feed and the TLD policies list","eu": "not offered: .eu is absent from the supported-TLD feed and the TLD policies list"} |
Unknown values 1
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed