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| 2015 || March 10 || Product || Cloudflare announces Virtual {{w|DNS}}, which provides {{w|DDoS}} mitigation and global distribution to DNS nameservers.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grant |first1=Dani |title=Announcing Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic |url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-virtual-dns-ddos-mitigation-and-global-distribution-for-dns-traffic/ |website=blog.cloudflare.com |accessdate=13 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || October || || "An October 2015 A report found finds that Cloudflare provisioned 40% of [[w:Public key certificate|SSL certificates]] used by [[{{w|phishing]] }} sites with deceptive domain names resembling those of banks and payment processors."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/10/12/certificate-authorities-issue-hundreds-of-deceptive-ssl-certificates-to-fraudsters.html|title=Certificate authorities issue SSL certificates to fraudsters|last1=Edgecombe|first1=Graham|date=October 12, 2015|work=[[{{w|Netcraft]]}}|accessdate=14 October 14, 20152019}}</ref>
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| 2015 || November || Controversy || "In November 2015, [[w:Hacktivism|hacktivist]] group [[w:Anonymous (group)|Anonymous]] discouraged discourages the use of Cloudflare's services following the {{w|ISIL }} [[w:November 2015 Paris attacks|attacks in Paris]] and the renewed accusation that Cloudflare aids terrorists."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/19/cloudflare-accused-by-anonymous-helping-isis|title=Web services firm Cloudflare accused by Anonymous of helping Isis|last1=Hern|first1=Alex|date=November 19, 2015|work=[[{{w|The Guardian]]}}|accessdate=November 19, 201514 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || February 23 || Product || CloudFlare announces launch of its own domain name registrar service focused on security.<ref>{{cite web |title=CloudFlare Launches Domain Name Registrar Focused on Security |url=https://news.softpedia.com/news/cloudflare-to-launch-a-domain-name-registrar-focused-on-security-500844.shtml |website=news.softpedia.com |accessdate=13 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2016 || September || || "From September 2016 until February 2017, a A major Cloudflare bug (nicknamed {{w|Cloudbleed}}) leaked starts leaking sensitive data, including passwords and authentication tokens, from customer websites by sending extra data in response to web requests."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/major-cloudflare-bug-leaked-sensitive-data-from-customers-websites/|title=Major Cloudflare bug leaked sensitive data from customers' websites|last=Conger|first=Kate|date=February 23, 2017|website=|publisher=[[TechCrunch]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=August 22, 2019}}</ref> "The leaks resulted result from a {{w|buffer overflow}} which occurred, according to analysis by Cloudflare, on approximately 1 in every 3,300,000 HTTP requests."<ref name="2017Inc">{{cite news|url=http://www.inc.com/joseph-steinberg/why-you-can-ignore-calls-to-change-your-passwords-after-todays-massive-password-.html|title=Why You Can Ignore Calls To Change Your Passwords After Today's Massive Password Leak Announcement|last=Steinberg|first=Joseph|date=February 24, 2017|work=[[w:Inc. (magazine)|Inc.]]|accessdate=February 24, 201714 October 2019|authorlink=}}</ref><ref name="USA Today">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/02/28/cloudfare-cloudbleed-bug-change-your-passwords/98519794/|title=Cloudfare bug: Yes, you should change your passwords|last1=Molina|first1=Brett|date=February 28, 2017|work={{w|USA Today}}|accessdate=March 1, 201714 October 2019|publisher=}}</ref>
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| 2016 || September 16 || Recognition || [[w:Forbes|Forbes Cloud 100]] ranks Cloudflare 11th on its list of top 100 cloud companies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Forbes Releases First List of Top 100 Cloud Companies + 20 Rising Stars |url=https://www.finsmes.com/2016/09/forbes-releases-first-list-of-top-100-cloud-companies.html |website=finsmes.com |accessdate=13 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/cloud100|title=Cloud 100 2016|last=|first=|date=|website={{w|Forbes}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429021106/https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#6e7750d2eb4f|archive-date=April 29, 2017|dead-url=yes|access-date=13 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/cloud100|title=Cloud 100 2017|last=|first=|date=|website={{w|Forbes}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903014740/https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#1bf9fa8eeb4f|archive-date=September 3, 2018|dead-url=yes|access-date=13 October 2019}}</ref>
| 2017 || January || || As of date Cloudflare provides DNS services to 12 million websites,<ref name="cloudflareblog1">{{cite web|url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-made-our-dns-stack-3x-faster/|title=How we made our DNS stack 3x faster|last=Arnfeld|first=Tom|date=April 11, 2017|website=The Cloudflare Blog|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=August 22, 2019}}</ref> adding approximately 20,000 new customers every day.<ref>{{Cite interview|last=Karaivanova|first=Maria|interviewer=Jackie Goldstein|title=Cloudflare – Making Your Website Fast, Safe, and Accessible Everywhere in the World|url=https://hostadvice.com/blog/cloudflare-making-website-fast-safe-accessible-everywhere-world|access-date=August 22, 2019|date=December 22, 2016}}</ref>
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| 2017 || August 6 || || "Breaking with its long-standing policy of total {{w|content neutrality}}, Cloudflare ceased providing services to the neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website ''The Daily Stormer'' on August 16, 2017, in the aftermath of the [[w:Charlottesville rally#Vehicular attack and homicide|fatal vehicular attack at the Charlottesville rally]] four days earlier. This dropped the website's protection against DDoS attacks, and soon thereafter attackers took down the website."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-daily-stormer-got-pushed-offline-by-hackers-2017-8|title=Cloudflare CEO explains his emotional decision to punt The Daily Stormer and subject it to hackers: I woke up 'in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet'|last=Peterson|first=Becky|date=August 17, 2017|website={{w|Business Insider}}|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=August 17, 2017}}</ref>
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| 2019 || July || || "Cloudflare suffered a major outage in July 2019, which rendered more than 12 million websites (80% of all customers) unreachable for 27 minutes."<ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-the-cloudflare-outage-on-july-2-2019/|title=Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019|last=Graham-Cumming|first=John|date=July 12, 2019|work=The Cloudflare Blog|accessdate=July 12, 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August 15 || || "On August 15, 2019, Cloudflare submitted submits its [[w:Form S-1|S-1]] filing for {{w|IPO }} on the {{w|New York Stock Exchange}} under the stock ticker NET."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://social.techcrunch.com/2019/08/15/cloudflare-files-for-initial-public-offering/|title=Cloudflare files for initial public offering|last=Shieber|first=Jonathan|date=August 15, 2019|website=[[{{w|TechCrunch]]}}|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 22, 14 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August || || "In August 2019, Cloudflare terminated terminates services to {{w|8chan}}, an American imageboard, after the perpetrator of the {{w|2019 El Paso shootings }} allegedly used the website to upload his manifesto."<ref name=":14" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigators-reasonably-confident-texas-suspect-left-anti-immigrant-screed-tipped-n1039031|title=Investigators ‘reasonably confident’ Texas suspect left anti-immigrant screed|last=Wong|first=Julia Carrie|date=August 4, 2019|publisher=[[NBC News]]|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 22, 2019}}</ref>
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| 2019 || August || || As of date, Cloudflare has around 1,069 employees.<ref name="Cloudflare S-1 Analysis — Do they have an edge?"/>
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| 2019 || September 11 || Recognition || [[w:Forbes|Forbes Cloud 100]] ranks Cloudflare 11th on its list of top 100 cloud companies.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cloud 100 |url=https://www.forbes.com/cloud100/#3d975ac85f94 |website=forbes.com |accessdate=14 October 2019}}</ref>|-| 2019 || || || "In 2014, Cloudflare introduced an effort called Project Galileo in response to cyberattacks against vulnerable online targets, such as artists, activists, journalists, and human rights groups. Project Galileo provides such groups with free services to protect their websites. In 2019, Cloudflare announced that 600 users and organizations were participating in the project."<ref name=":4"/>
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| 2019 || || || "In 2019, Cloudflare announced a new [[w:Domain name registrar|domain registrar]] service that promised to offer low-cost wholesale pricing and easy ways to enable [[w:Domain Name System Security Extensions|DNSSEC]]."
