Secondary DNS — A faster, more resilient way to serve your DNS records
May 25, 2020 11:00 AM
Starting today, enterprise customers who are entitled to secondary DNS will be able to configure their zone in the Cloudflare Dashboard....
Making DNS record changes more reliable
May 25, 2020 11:00 AM
DNS is the very first step in accessing any website, API, or pretty much anything on the Internet, which makes it mission-critical to keeping your site up and running. This week, we are launching two significant changes that allow our customers to better maintain and update their DNS records. ...
Deploying Gateway using a Raspberry Pi, DNS over HTTPS and Pi-hole
April 21, 2020 11:00 AM
Like many, I work remotely and want to show how to deploy Cloudflare Gateway from home. Its DNS filtering protects networks from malware, phishing, ransomware, and other security threats effectively....
The Mistake that Caused 1.1.1.3 to Block LGBTQIA+ Sites Today
April 02, 2020 3:32 AM
Today we made a mistake. The mistake caused a number of LGBTQIA+ sites to inadvertently be blocked by the new 1.1.1.1 for Families service. I wanted to walk through what happened, why, and what we've done to fix it....
Announcing the Beta for WARP for macOS and Windows
April 01, 2020 1:00 PM
While WARP started as an option within the 1.1.1.1 app, it's really a technology that can benefit any device connected to the Internet. In fact, one of the most common requests we've gotten over the last year is support for WARP for macOS and Windows. Today we're announcing exactly that....
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March 31, 2020 1:01 PM
Announcing the Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination
We took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy practices should be ...
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March 12, 2020 12:00 PM
Protect your team with Cloudflare Gateway
On January 7th, we announced Cloudflare for Teams, a new way to protect organizations and their employees globally, without sacrificing performance. Cloudflare for Teams centers around two core products - Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway....
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October 29, 2019 1:00 PM
DNS Encryption Explained
The Domain Name System (DNS) is the address book of the Internet. When you visit cloudflare.com or any other site, your browser will ask a DNS resolver for the IP address where the website can be found. Unfortunately, these DNS queries and answers are typically unprotected....
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September 25, 2019 1:00 PM
WARP is here (sorry it took so long)
Today, after a longer than expected wait, we're opening WARP and WARP+ to the general public. If you haven’t heard about it yet, WARP is a mobile app designed for everyone which uses our global network to secure all of your phone’s Internet traffic....
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June 18, 2019 1:00 PM
Securing Certificate Issuance using Multipath Domain Control Validation
Trust on the Internet is underpinned by the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). PKI grants servers the ability to securely serve websites by issuing digital certificates, providing the foundation for encrypted and authentic communication. ...
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June 16, 2019 5:07 PM
Welcome to Crypto Week 2019
The Internet is an extraordinarily complex and evolving ecosystem. Its constituent protocols range from the ancient and archaic (hello FTP) to the modern and sleek (meet WireGuard), with a fair bit of everything in between. ...
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April 01, 2019 1:00 PM
Introducing WARP: fixing mobile Internet performance and security
Today we're excited to announce what we began to plan more than two years ago: the 1.1.1.1 App with WARP performance and security technology. We built Warp from the ground up to thrive in the harsh conditions of the modern mobile Internet....
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March 15, 2019 5:01 PM
RFC8482 - Saying goodbye to ANY
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like you to welcome the new shiny RFC8482, which effectively deprecates DNS ANY query type. DNS ANY was a "meta-query" - think about it as a similar thing to the common A, AAAA, MX or SRV query types, but unlike these it wasn't a real query type - it...
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February 06, 2019 4:00 PM
Better business results from faster web applications - Cloudflare is the fastest
Does page speed affect revenue? It does, and to a large degree. Learn why Cloudflare is the most effective when it comes to boosting site speed and performance....
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February 05, 2019 4:00 PM
Cloudflare Support for Azure Customers
Cloudflare seeks to help its end customers use whichever public and private clouds best suit their needs. Towards that goal, we have been working to make sure our solutions work well with various public cloud providers including Microsoft’s Azure platform....
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January 16, 2019 5:01 PM
One-Click DNSSEC with Cloudflare Registrar
When you launch your domain to the world, you rely on the Domain Name System (DNS) to direct your users to the address for your site. However, DNS cannot guarantee that your visitors reach your content because DNS, in its basic form, lacks authentication....
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December 21, 2018 4:00 PM
Encrypting DNS end-to-end
Over the past few months, we have been running a pilot with Facebook to test the feasibility of securing the connection between 1.1.1.1 and Facebook’s authoritative name servers. ...
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December 14, 2018 1:00 PM
Managing DNS Records For The People With Cloudflare Apps
DNS records are hard. Many people, even the technically competent, don’t bother to learn more than the basics. Let Cloudflare Apps manage them for you....
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November 11, 2018 1:00 PM
1 Thing You Can Do To Make Your Internet Safer And Faster
On April 1st, 2018, we announced 1.1.1.1, the fastest public DNS resolver in the world ???. Today, we are launching the 1.1.1.1 mobile app to make it incredibly easy to use 1.1.1.1 on your phone....
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