Cloudflare Registrar Measured
Cloudflare Registrar charges only what the registry and ICANN charge, with no markup. For .com that is Verisign’s $10.97 wholesale fee (from 1 November 2026) plus ICANN’s $0.20 fee, about $11.17 a year.
Overview
Cloudflare Registrar charges only what the registry and ICANN charge, with no markup. For .com that is Verisign’s $10.97 wholesale fee (from 1 November 2026) plus ICANN’s $0.20 fee, about $11.17 a year.
The good
- Renewal price equals first-year price, at cost
- Free WHOIS redaction
- Free DNSSEC
The bad
- Must use Cloudflare DNS
- No promotional first-year deals
- Exact .com price not shown until search
Pricing
Checked 3 November 2026. Prices are in US dollars and can change; confirm at checkout.
- .com registration: at cost, about $11.17 (third-party price trackers list $11.17 after 1 November 2026)
- .com renewal: same at-cost price
- .com transfer: at cost
Privacy and data use
WHOIS information is redacted by default at no charge.
Refunds and cancellation
Not stated on the pages we checked.
Transfers and upsells
No markup and no add-ons pushed at checkout. The catch: your domain must use Cloudflare’s DNS, so you can’t point the nameservers elsewhere.
Overall value verdict
For a .com you plan to keep, Cloudflare is the most transparent option: you pay the wholesale price every year. The trade-off is being locked to Cloudflare DNS.