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Cloudflare Tunnel — familiar to every Cloudflare user. On Linux the binary is called cloudflared, and the open source repo lives at https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared. So, with nothing better to do, I registered cloudflared.cn, hooked it up to Cloudflare's services, and then — my account was gone.
In early February 2024, Freenom reclaimed every free domain — yes, all of them. Log into Freenom and check your domain status: everything shows PENDING.
The other day someone asked me how I integrate Cloudflare and why it's relatively fast — and why the resolved IPs are still three A records? Let me share my site's architecture and how I use Cloudflare.
On July 17, 2023, the Republic of Mali took back the .ml registry because the delegation agreement expired. Back in 2013, Dutch internet entrepreneur Johannes Zuurbier obtained the .ml registry rights, signing a 10-year agreement with the government of Mali.
Gabon's National Agency for Digital Infrastructures and Frequencies (ANINF) announced that from June 7, 2023, it is taking back the .ga registry from Freenom, and free .ga domains registered through Freenom will be forcibly reclaimed.
Freenom may be an unfamiliar name, but the free .tk/.ga/.ml/.cf/.gq domains certainly aren't. Freenom is the registry operator behind them, offering free domain registration that's recommended all over the internet. Well — today, it's in trouble.
Years ago people were already saying domains no longer matter — it's the mobile app era, a good domain isn't that important anymore. Yesterday, domain brokerage giant Saw.com announced on social media that it took part in the sale of the top-tier domain AI.com.
It's not just the ICP filing that got revoked — checking cnBeta.com's WHOIS, the domain has been placed under clientHold, halting resolution worldwide. A shutdown like this doesn't come from a small mistake: with the domain itself set to clientHold, they clearly crossed a red line.
Any webmaster would be curious why Apple's China site moved from apple.com to apple.com.cn. What's good about a CN domain? Why does Apple like CN? Let me analyze it based on my own site-running experience.
Earlier I tried to find out who the past owners of the domain I currently use were, curious about what they had used it for. Following up on 'The Story of My Domain: Digging Through Its Past and Present,' I continue to explore who those past owners were.
