I am thinking of signing up with cloud flare, but since i'm not very familiar with the technical side of things, I wanted to ask here first.How safe is it to sign up with services, like cloud flare?Do they ultimately own my domain? Are they able to take away control of my domain?The way I see it, I transfer ownership of my domain to them, and they will also appear as owners in whois. Is this how it works? I'm confused.Note, I am not asking how reputable cloud flare is, but rather how it works, and if they are technically able to snatch my domain.
Cloudflare is it safe?
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The short answer is that Cloudflare is safe. Cloudflare is essentially nothing more than a content delivery network (CDN). The theory behind it is that they will cache copies of your website to their servers, which are spread across different locations. When a visitor visits your site the server that is closest to them is chosen and the connection has less distance to travel, hence speeding up the load times. It will also attempt to serve a cached copy of your site if it ever goes down for some reason. 