CloudFlare CDN

CloudFlare and the CloudFlare CDN was brought to my attention when I was researching the CDN that VideoPress use for their video presentation on Wordress.com.

At the present time I do not really need a Content Delivery Network solution for this website as the traffic is so light. The purpose of the investigation was to see what was involved in setting one up.

Although I setup a free account I did not authenticate it and the account was deleted from the Cloudflare servers after a 28 day "pending" period. This was okay as I did not what to either migrate my domain registation to Cloudflare or even change my nameserver settings on my present webhost.

Free CloudFlare Account

On investigation there is a free account for CloudFlare. I signed-up but did not change my nameservers as I wanted to investigate what was involved.

ICANN

The ICANN Whois (Domain Lookup) gives a good indication of the status codes contained in a DNS record. For example, redemptionPeriod.

Redemption Period

This status code indicates that your registrar has asked the registry to delete your domain. Your domain will be held in this status for 30 days. After five calendar days following the end of the redemptionPeriod, your domain is purged from the registry database and becomes available for registration.

The status on a particular domain has this status. When the redemption period started is not known. However, the domain registration expired 21 Feb 2024 and the status is still also pendingDelete on 30 April 2024. When the pendingDelete was placed on the domain is also not known.

I believe that the domain is currently "held" by Godaddy and could be registered if you pay them a brokerage fee