throwawaydns101

That would solve the problem of losing DNS records. What do you do when you lose access to the domain name in the first place?

I don't work for Cloudflare but I work for another large company that also manages domain names and DNS records. I don't want to risk the possibility that my comment could be interpreted by my employer as conflict the interest.

DNS has become frighteningly unreliable. Here are previous stories that show how it is possible to lose access to your domain for no fault of yours:

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21700139 - Sinkholed

(2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19322966 - I lost my domain and everything that goes with it

No different than this story where the author's DNS records were deleted because of so called "anomaly".

Here are so many more stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21710939

DNS was a good idea but now there are organizations that have the power to arbitrarily take control and even remove your domain names and records. We really need to come up with a peer-to-peer solution and take back control of the naming system from these authorities.