Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

(blog.cloudflare.com)

74 points | by rolph 1 hour ago

13 comments

  • c-linkage 31 minutes ago
    Having to manually register new domains was something that was really holding back my ability to commit fraud. Now that large language models and agents can do this for me, that will really speed up my ability to defraud the innocent and elderly.
    • loganc2342 18 minutes ago
      Reminds me of an article from The Onion from this morning: https://theonion.com/taking-advantage-of-other-people-was-th...
    • throwup238 28 minutes ago
      Have you talked to Andreesen Horowitz yet? That elevator pitch alone should get you a few million.
      • silcoon 20 minutes ago
        Curious, is there an Andreesen Horowitz Agent MCP?

        Let’s automate this end to end, from idea to raising capitals. Vibe Angels should just be multi agents managing how much capitals to allocate to each projects.

  • jackconsidine 35 minutes ago
    That is ironic. Four years ago, cloudflare didn’t let human me have an account / buy domains because I signed up, never used a single service but didn’t respond to a request to verify my drivers license

    > This account is in violation of Cloudflare's Terms of Service. Specifically fraud. The suspension is permanent.

    (Yes that’s really it. Sincerely. No “but I also abused X”)

    • captn3m0 21 minutes ago
      > By agreeing to these Terms, you represent and warrant to us: (i) that you have not previously been suspended or removed from the Websites and Online Services

      CloudFlare ToS has you covered. A human must accept it, even with the new agentic flow.

  • hboon 1 minute ago
    I was pleasantly surprised when I read the headline a few days ago. But it's only accessible through Stripe right? I'm simultanenously very concerned about the centralized control that Stripe gains (it's not going to be just access to Cloudflare) and also amazed at how Stripe is shaping to be. It was just a payment processor.
  • faangguyindia 3 minutes ago
    Most of the sysadmin and devops team have been downsized in India because of AI.

    Basically, now it's trivial for any new devops guy to run such a query in Claude Code:

    “Log in to this production server, find out all services it runs and their deployment method, create documentation about everything, and generate a repeatable, auditable deployment workflow.”

    Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to maintain job security.

    Boom, 80% of the team gone.

    I know companies are doing migrations of production Postgres and MySQL on 1000s of machines using AI agents.

    I’m imagining how many SaaS will be automated out and simply be an "agent skill" in ClaudeCode.

  • aleksiy123 3 minutes ago
    I was wondering if someone was going to allow payments through CLI at some point.

    But jokes aside having a central place to manage billing and accounts for deploying infra across multiple providers is pretty awesome imo.

    if they have a terraform provider even better. I wonder if also makes multi tenant architectures or environment isolation easier to provision as well.

  • swader999 5 minutes ago
    Who goes to websites these days?
  • jakebasile 24 minutes ago
    As a user of the internet I can only imagine this worsening my experience by allowing even more slop to permeate the network's every orifice.

    Also, when an agent sets up a domain, who is the domain owner? Who responds to takedown requests? What if it then decides to host illegal content at the domain (generated or otherwise). Who is responsible? Agents aren't (yet) legal persons, so it must be the person who owns the agent, but if that person never even sees the legal agreement being agreed to how would it hold up in court? If the person didn't direct the creation or hosting of illegal content, what then?

    • idank 2 minutes ago
      Humans will not win in court with a "but the agent did it, I had no idea" argument. Just look at how the cases against OAI are going, and that's where families lose a loved one. There's not going to be any sympathy when your agent committed fraud in your behalf.

      And it's not like pro agent companies have a reason to self regulate. This is just another channel to bring in customers. They will capitalize ruthlessly to increase their bottom line. I don't think anyone is expecting anything else.

  • saneshark 42 minutes ago
    Claude has been buying domains and deploying to Vercel for me using aws cli, vercel cli, and gh cli since December. Personally I prefer a cli to an MCP server for this type of thing.
    • Waterluvian 24 minutes ago
      Are any of these domains public? I’d love to study and better understand the use case for needing to AIify this.
      • threethirtytwo 16 minutes ago
        It’s not AIifying one thing. It’s AIifying the entire work flow… every detail. Allowing domain names is just one aspect of it.

        The agent does everything. “Make a website that does…“ and it can handle everything from start to finish. It’s that good now.

  • slopinthebag 3 minutes ago
    Thank god, this is what we've been missing on our quest to make software better for our users.
  • arjie 1 hour ago
    Fascinating. This is through Stripe rather than wrangler or anything. Coding agents were pretty good at handling the Cloudflare API already with an API key, but I think this thing that Stripe is doing by being the central hub through which all agent stuff goes by integrating with their CLI is a pretty good move for them.
    • joemazerino 39 minutes ago
      Buying the domain is the key here.
  • floodfx 51 minutes ago
    I clicked through the $100k credits link and didn’t see Cloudflare listed as an Atlas partner? (Maybe not updated?)

    This looks interesting nonetheless.

  • armanj 32 minutes ago
    > buy

    good luck