DNS Root Key Rollover Puts Resolver Readiness on Hosting Checklist

DNS resolver operators have only days left to confirm they trust the next DNS root key before the scheduled root KSK rollover on October 11, 2026. Cloudflare warned […]

Cloudflare Plans a Public Certificate Authority as TLS Automation Pressure Rises

Cloudflare says it is applying to become a public certificate authority, a move that would put one of the largest TLS terminators on the internet into the certificate-issuance […]

Cloudflare Tests Zstandard Cache Transcoding to Stretch CDN Capacity

Cloudflare says a cache-transcoding prototype could materially expand effective CDN cache capacity by storing eligible assets in Zstandard-compressed form inside its Pingora-based edge stack. In a September 1 […]

Cloudflare Syncs AI Bot Rules with robots.txt for Site Operators

Cloudflare’s Bot Preference Sync ties AI crawler preferences for search, agents, and training to the robots.txt file site operators publish.

Cloudflare Filters Certificate Alerts as Shorter TLS Lifetimes Raise the Noise Floor

Cloudflare has made its Certificate Transparency Monitoring generally available, with a practical change for hosting teams: alerts should now exclude the certificates Cloudflare itself issues for a customer’s […]