Domain Name System
System to identify resources on a network
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| March 10 2025 | During Oracle's Q2 earnings call, Larry Ellison revealed that Newfold Digital is migrating to Oracle Cloud to enhance security and performance. |
| 2025 | GoDaddy returned to Super Bowl advertising after an eight-year hiatus, featuring a commercial promoting their AI service Airo with actor Walton Goggins. |
| 2024 | Cloudflare announced plans to launch a new payment method called Stripe Link, which went into beta in the fall. |
| 2024 | Cloudflare developed a tool to prevent website bot scraping by analyzing AI bots and crawler traffic, enhancing web protection technologies. |
| 2024 | Cloudflare launched an AI assistant capable of generating charts based on user queries by leveraging their Workers AI technology. |
| 2024 | Ionos conducted a survey in the U.S. market revealing that 55% of American small and medium-sized businesses are using or would consider using artificial intelligence (AI), marking a 5% increase from the previous year. |
| October 2024 | Blocked the largest publicly-recorded DDoS attack, with volumetric attacks peaking at 5.6 terabits per second. |
| October 2024 | Cloudflare acquired Kivera, adding to its growing portfolio of web services and security technologies. |
| October 2024 | Cloudflare provided analysis and reports on Verizon's large-scale network outage, demonstrating the company's capacity for network infrastructure insights. |
| September 2024 | Cloudflare announced plans to launch a marketplace where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site's content. |
| September 2024 | Cloudflare announced two significant developments: Ephemeral IDs for identifying fraudulent activity, and making DNS resolvers freely available to all ISP and equipment manufacturers. |
| July 10 2024 | All domains were migrated to Squarespace Domains platform. |
| May 2024 | Cloudflare acquired BastionZero, further enhancing its security capabilities. |
| March 2024 | Cloudflare announced Firewall for AI, designed to defend applications running large language models (LLMs). |
| March 2024 | Cloudflare acquired Nefeli Networks, continuing its strategy of technological expansion. |
| 2023 | Cloudflare launched Workers AI, a framework enabling the use of Nvidia GPUs within their network, expanding their artificial intelligence capabilities. |
| 2023 | The Worcester data center received tier IV certification, signifying high standards of infrastructure reliability and performance. |
| 2023 | The Lenexa, Kansas data center became the site for hosting Ionos' cloud products. |
| 2023 | SafeDNS was recognized as an Emerging Favorite by Capterra in two categories: Endpoint Protection and Cloud Security. |
| 2023 | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) chose Cloudflare to replace Verisign as the .gov domain operator. |
| September 2023 | Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Fonts as a direct competitor to Google Fonts. |
| September 7 2023 | Squarespace acquired most of Google Domains' assets, including registered domain databases, customer accounts, and registry accreditation. |
| August 2023 | Namecheap launched Spaceship.com, a new platform for domain registration and web services, featuring Unbox for product integration and an App Library for enhanced user experience. |
| August 2023 | Cloudflare initiated the Project Cybersafe Schools program, part of a $20 million AWS grant, making cybersecurity services available at no cost to 70 percent of US public school districts. |
| August 2023 | Cloudflare was hired by SpaceX to improve the performance of Starlink's network infrastructure. |
| August 2023 | Cloudflare and IBM announced a partnership to provide bot management capabilities for protecting IBM Cloud customers from malicious bots and automated threats. |
| March 2023 | Cloudflare announced it would make post-quantum cryptography freely available to cloud services, applications, and Internet connections. |
| February 2023 | Cloudflare launched Wildebeest, enabling Mastodon users to set up and run their own instances on Cloudflare's infrastructure. |
| February 2023 | Reported blocking a 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack, which they claimed was the largest HTTP DDoS attack on record. |
| February 16 2023 | GoDaddy filed its annual 10-K report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), revealing multiple data breaches over the past three years that impacted over one million customers. |
| February 15 2023 | Delhi High Court ordered Indian IT Ministry to block Namecheap and other domain registrars over cybersquatting and non-compliance with India's IT Rules, 2021. |
| January 2023 | Cloudflare announced a partnership with PhonePe to secure its mobile payment system. |
| January 29 2023 |
DNS over TLS
Unwind DNS software added support for DNS over TLS (DoT), further expanding the protocol's adoption among DNS server applications.
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| January 22 2023 |
DNS over TLS
Unbound DNS server software began supporting DNS over TLS (DoT), marking a significant milestone in encrypted DNS protocol implementation.
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| 2022 | Stanford University published a research paper identifying Cloudflare as a prominent CDN provider disproportionately serving misinformation websites. |
| 2022 | A campaign was launched by transgender activist Clara Sorrenti to pressure Cloudflare into terminating service for Kiwi Farms due to the forum's harassment and doxxing activities. |
| 2022 | Project Fair Shot won a Webby People's Choice Award in the Event Management category for Apps & Software. |
| 2022 | Cloudflare extended free protection under Project Galileo to Ukrainian government agencies and telecommunications organizations in response to the Russian invasion. |
| 2022 | Cloudflare announced D1, an Edge SQL database built on SQLite. |
| 2022 | SafeDNS web-filtering service won the Best Value Software award at the SoftwareSuggest Winter Recognition Awards. |
| 2022 | SafeDNS launched new product features including Cyber Security categories and AppBlocker, expanding its cybersecurity capabilities. |
| 2022 | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published RFC 9250, which formally documented the DNS over QUIC (DoQ) protocol, introducing a new transport method for DNS with improved privacy and latency characteristics. |
| 2022 |
Country code top-level domain
Several internationalized country code top-level domains became available, including European Union's .ευ, Israel's .ישראל, India's domains in Assamese, Kashmiri, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi scripts, and Macao's traditional Chinese script (.澳門).
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| October 2022 | Ionos opened a new data center in Worcester, UK, designed to improve data center reliability. The facility features photovoltaic panels on its roof, generating up to 10% of the site's energy consumption. |
| September 2022 | Cloudflare began testing Turnstile, an automated verification alternative to CAPTCHA that uses JavaScript-based checks and machine learning to determine user authenticity. |
| September 3 2022 | Cloudflare blocked Kiwi Farms, citing an 'unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life' after a surge of credible violent threats. CEO Matthew Prince stated there was an imminent danger that law enforcement could not quickly address. |
| August 2022 | Pax 8 acquired Umbrellar, marking a significant change in the company's ownership and potentially its strategic direction in the web hosting market. |
| March 31 2022 |
Country code top-level domain
Total number of ccTLD domains reached approximately 153 million, with .cn, .tk, .de, .uk, .nl, and .ru ccTLDs containing the highest number of domains.
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| March 24 2022 |
Country code top-level domain
Australia launched direct second-level domain registration (marketed as '.au Direct') for their .au country code top-level domain.
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