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Why is no one using Quad9 instead of Cloudfare? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by LavenderBreton@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Seems a little odd that the fediverse uses Cloudfare.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What, cloudflare is a registrar?

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[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago*

Yes but I wasn't using CloudFlare at all. The domains were registered with Tucows and only quad9 had incorrect DNS lookups.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Registrar, nameserver, hosting provider, reverse proxy, authentication provider, they do lots of things now.

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