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It's not the only free DNS service.
It's only a good registrar if you don't care about privacy and you're ok with their selection of TLDs (selected only from registries without privacy).
The free accounts do not benefit from DDoS protection. Re-read their terms of service, they're vague on purpose. If you were ever DDoS'ed (I don't know who would bother btw but that's another discussion) they'd just drop you.
You can establish the tunneling thing on your own with any VPS.
You can and should diversify your services and spread them to different providers that are easy to switch. I've been with "all in one" providers before, they inevitably end up leveraging their convenience into all sorts of crap. But until you get burned a couple of times they look really good.
can i get some alternatives. currently basically using cf pretty much just for dns, but would really like to switch
desec.io
that looks great, thanks o/
EDIT: looks like you can only manage 1 domain before having to contact their support
As it is run by volunteers, they probably want to keep corporate (or domain hoarders) off their platform unless they pay.
makes sense, they support plenty of donation options, if that's suggested/a requirement to let me transfer in more than 1 :)
Contact support and tell them how many you need and they'll try to accommodate you. There were a lot of people abusing the service and hosting hundreds of domains so now they're making everybody request them explicitly unfortunately. They've also had to suspend their .dedyn.io DDNS service indefinitely because of the abuse.
That's why we can't have nice things.
Please read up on DNSSEC because you will be required to turn it on for every domain you host with them.