Cloudflare

American technology company

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March 2025 Cloudflare introduced Cloudforce One threat events platform, offering real-time insights into cyberattacks using data from their network.
February 2025 Following the court ruling, Cloudflare-hosted pirate platform DuckVision was shut down before the Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid derby. The platform, with 200,000 users, was blocked, affecting major websites including X, Vimeo, Steam, GitHub, and the Real Academia de la Lengua Española.
2024 Cloudflare announced plans to launch a new payment method called Stripe Link, which went into beta in the fall.
2024 Cloudflare developed a tool to prevent website bot scraping by analyzing AI bots and crawler traffic, enhancing web protection technologies.
2024 Cloudflare launched an AI assistant capable of generating charts based on user queries by leveraging their Workers AI technology.
December 2024 Court ruling led to Spanish LaLiga requesting telephone operators block Cloudflare's IP address ranges due to hosting websites illegally broadcasting soccer matches.
October 2024 Blocked the largest publicly-recorded DDoS attack, with volumetric attacks peaking at 5.6 terabits per second.
October 2024 Cloudflare provided analysis and reports on Verizon's large-scale network outage, demonstrating the company's capacity for network infrastructure insights.
October 2024 Cloudflare acquired Kivera, adding to its growing portfolio of web services and security technologies.
September 2024 Cloudflare announced Ephemeral IDs to identify fraudulent activity by linking behavior through short-lived generated IDs, and declared that all ISP and equipment manufacturers could use their DNS resolvers for free.
September 2024 Cloudflare announced two significant developments: Ephemeral IDs for identifying fraudulent activity, and making DNS resolvers freely available to all ISP and equipment manufacturers.
September 2024 Cloudflare announced plans to launch a marketplace where website owners can sell AI model providers access to scrape their site's content.
May 2024 Cloudflare acquired BastionZero, further enhancing its security capabilities.
March 2024 Cloudflare announced Firewall for AI, designed to defend applications running large language models (LLMs).
March 2024 Cloudflare acquired Nefeli Networks, continuing its strategy of technological expansion.
2023 Cloudflare launched Workers AI, a framework enabling the use of Nvidia GPUs within their network, expanding their artificial intelligence capabilities.
September 2023 Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Fonts as a direct competitor to Google Fonts.
August 2023 Cloudflare initiated the Project Cybersafe Schools program, part of a $20 million AWS grant, making cybersecurity services available at no cost to 70 percent of US public school districts.
August 2023 Cloudflare was hired by SpaceX to improve the performance of Starlink's network infrastructure.
August 2023 Cloudflare and IBM announced a partnership to provide bot management capabilities for protecting IBM Cloud customers from malicious bots and automated threats.
March 2023 Cloudflare announced it would make post-quantum cryptography freely available to cloud services, applications, and Internet connections.
February 2023 Cloudflare launched Wildebeest, enabling Mastodon users to set up and run their own instances on Cloudflare's infrastructure.
February 2023 Reported blocking a 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack, which they claimed was the largest HTTP DDoS attack on record.
January 2023 Cloudflare announced a partnership with PhonePe to secure its mobile payment system.
2022 Cloudflare extended free protection under Project Galileo to Ukrainian government agencies and telecommunications organizations in response to the Russian invasion.
2022 A campaign was launched by transgender activist Clara Sorrenti to pressure Cloudflare into terminating service for Kiwi Farms due to the forum's harassment and doxxing activities.
2022 Stanford University published a research paper identifying Cloudflare as a prominent CDN provider disproportionately serving misinformation websites.
2022 Project Fair Shot won a Webby People's Choice Award in the Event Management category for Apps & Software.
2022 Cloudflare announced D1, an Edge SQL database built on SQLite.
September 2022 Cloudflare began testing Turnstile, an automated verification alternative to CAPTCHA that uses JavaScript-based checks and machine learning to determine user authenticity.
September 3 2022 Cloudflare blocked Kiwi Farms, citing an 'unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life' after a surge of credible violent threats. CEO Matthew Prince stated there was an imminent danger that law enforcement could not quickly address.
February 2022 Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials called on Cloudflare to stop providing services in the Russian market due to potential disinformation spread through their content delivery network.
February 2022 Cloudflare acquired Vectrix and Area 1 Security, strengthening its security technology portfolio.
December 2021 Cloudflare acquired Zaraz, expanding its web services capabilities.
July 2021 Claimed to have absorbed a DDoS attack three times larger than any previous attack, implying it was over 1.2 Tbit/s.
January 2021 Cloudflare launched 'Project Fair Shot', a free 'Waiting Room' digital queue product to assist with COVID-19 vaccination scheduling.
2020 An Italian court ordered Cloudflare to block current and future domain names and IP addresses of the pirate IPTV service 'IPTV THE BEST' for intellectual property infringement, at a time when Cloudflare was already blocking 22 domain names in Italy.
2020 Cloudflare released Pages, a JAMstack platform enabling developers to deploy websites on Cloudflare's Edge infrastructure.
2020 Over 1,000 users and organizations, including 31 US states, were participating in Project Galileo.
2020 Michelle Zatlyn was named president, becoming one of the few female presidents of a publicly traded technology company in the U.S.
December 2020 Cloudflare acquired Linc, further developing its technological ecosystem.
November 2020 Cloudflare announced Cloudflare for Teams, introducing a DNS resolver and web gateway called 'Gateway', and a zero-trust authentication service called 'Access'.
October 2020 Cloudflare launched Cloudflare One, its comprehensive Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform, providing integrated networking and security solutions.
April 2020 Cloudflare announced it was moving away from using reCAPTCHA in favor of hCaptcha, shifting its approach to internet security verification.
January 2020 Cloudflare acquired S2 Systems, continuing its expansion of web services and security technologies.
2019 Cloudflare released WARP, a VPN service, and open-sourced its custom WireGuard implementation written in Rust programming language.
September 2019 Cloudflare reported in their Form S-1 filing that their technology was used by individuals or entities blacklisted under United States economic and trade sanctions regulations, including entities in OFAC's counter-terrorism and counter-narcotics trafficking sanctions programs.
September 13 2019 Cloudflare began public trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $15 per share.
August 15 2019 Cloudflare submitted its S-1 filing for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange.

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