Changes

| 2015 || Cloudflare launches DNS, Web Security, and Web Performance.<ref name="Cloudflare S-1 Analysis — Do they have an edge?"/> The company raises US$110 million from investors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cloudflare plans big IPO |url=https://infotechlead.com/software/cloudflare-plans-big-ipo-56646 |website=infotechlead.com |accessdate=14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 2013 || March || || Cloudflare defends {{w|The Spamhaus Project}} from a {{w|DDoS}} attack that exceeds 300 Gbit/s. [[w:Akamai Technologies|Akamai's]] chief architect states that at the time it is "the largest publicly announced DDoS attack in the history of the Internet".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2474809/cybercrime-hacking/biggest-ddos-attack-in-history-slows-internet--breaks-record-at-300-gbps.html|title=Biggest DDoS attack in history slows Internet, breaks record at 300 Gbps|last1=Storm|first1=Darlene|date=March 27, 2013|work={{w|Computerworld}}|access-date=13 October, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html|title=Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack|last1=Markoff|first1=John|date=March 26, 2013|work={{w|The New York Times}}|access-date=August 22, 2019|last2=Perlroth|first2=Nicole}}</ref>

| 2014 || || Program launch || "In 2014, Cloudflare introduced introduces 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">{{Cite news|url=https://www.wired.com/story/cloudflare-project-galileo-protect-nonprofits/|title=Cloudflare's Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online|last=Newman|first=Lily Hay|date=June 12, 2019|work=[[w:Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|access-date=August 5, 2019|language=en|issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref name=":4" />

| 2014 || December || Financial || "In December 2014, Cloudflare raised raises US$110 million in a Series D round led by {{w|Fidelity Investments}}, with participation from {{w|CapitalG}}, {{w|Microsoft}}, {{w|Qualcomm}}, and {{w|Baidu}}."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/cloudflare-hints-ipo-coud-be-coming-but-not-this-year/|title=Cloudflare Hints IPO Could Be Coming, But Not This Year|last1=Miller|first1=Ron|date=September 22, 2015|website={{w|TechCrunch}}|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=August 22, 14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 2014 || || || "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."<ref name=":4" />|-| 2015 || February || Recognition || "Awarded Cloudflare is named "Best Enterprise Startup" by {{w|TechCrunch}} at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards in February 2015".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/events/8th-annual-crunchies-awards/winners/|title=8th Annual Crunchies Awards|last=|first=|date=February 5, 2015|work=|publisher={{w|TechCrunch}}|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=August 22, 14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 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>

| 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>

| 2016 || February 23 22 || 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><ref>{{cite web |title=Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses |url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-registrar/ |website=blog.cloudflare.com |accessdate=14 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=CloudFlare to launch its own 'high security' web domain registrar |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/22/cloudflare_high_security_registrar/ |website=theregister.co.uk |accessdate=14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 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>

| 2017 || January || Userbase || 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>

| 2017 || May || || "In May 2017, {{w|ProPublica}} reported that Cloudflare as a matter of policy relays the names and email addresses of persons complaining about hate sites to the sites in question, which has led to the complainants being harassed. Cloudflare's [[general counsel]] defended the company's policies by saying it is "base constitutional law that people can face their accusers"."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serve-up-hate-on-the-web|title=How One Major Internet Company Helps Serve Up Hate on the Web|last1=Schwencke|first1=Ken|date=May 4, 2017|website=[[ProPublica]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=May 6, 2017}}</ref>|-| 2017 || August 6 || || "Breaking with its long-standing policy of total {{w|content neutrality}}, Cloudflare ceased ceases 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 dropps the website's protection against DDoS attacks, and soon thereafter attackers took take 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, 201714 October 2019}}</ref>

| 2017 || || || ""Ranked #11 on the [[w:Forbes|Forbes Cloud 100]] list in 2016 and 2017""|-| 2018 || April 1 || Product || "On April 1, 2018, Cloudflare announced announces a 'privacy-first' consumer {{w|DNS }} service, hosted at IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. Alternatively, the service can be accessed via IPv6 at 2606:4700:4700::1111 and 2606:4700:4700::1001."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/amp/|title=Anouncing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service|last=Prince|first=Matthew|date=April 1, 2018|website=The Cloudflare Blog|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 22, 14 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cloudflare-privacy-focused-dns-service,36786.html|title=Cloudflare Launches Privacy-Focused 1.1.1.1 DNS Service|last=Armasu|first=Lucian|date=April 2, 2018|website={{w|Tom's Hardware}}|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 22, 14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 2018 || November 1 || Product || "On November 11, 2018, Cloudflare announced announces a mobile version of their 1.1.1.1 service for {{w|iOS }} and [[w:Android(operating system)|Android]]."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-launches-android-and-ios-apps-for-its-1-1-1-1-service/|title=Cloudflare launches Android and iOS apps for its 1.1.1.1 service|last1=Cimpanu|first1=Catalin|date=November 11, 2018|website=[[{{w|ZDNet]]}}|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 22, 14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 2019 || March || Financial || "In March 2019, Cloudflare raised raises US$150 million in a Series E round , led by {{w|Franklin Templeton Investments}}, with participation from New Enterprise Associates, Union Square Ventures, Venrock, Pelion Venture Partners, Greenspring Associates, CapitalG, Microsoft, Baidu, Qualcomm and Fidelity."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/03/12/cloudflare-150-million-funding-ipo-in-question.html|title=Cloudflare's $150 million funding round puts its IPO plans in question|last1=Kawamoto|first1=Dawn|date=March 12, 2019|website={{w|San Francisco Business Times}}|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=March 12, 2019}} {{subscription required|s}}</ref>

| 2019 || April 1 || Product || "On April 1, 2019, Cloudflare announced announces a new freemium [[w:Virtual private network|Virtual Private Network]] service named Warp. The service would initially be available through the 1.1.1.1 mobile apps with a desktop app available later."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/01/cloudflare-warp-free-vpn-service-ios/|title=Cloudflare announces Warp: a new free VPN service for iOS|last=Rambo|first=Guilherme|date=April 1, 2019|website=[[9to5Mac]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402054515/https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/01/cloudflare-warp-free-vpn-service-ios/|archive-date=April 2, 2019|dead-url=no|access-date=April 2, 2019}}</ref>

| 2019 || June 21 || || "On June 21, 2019, Cloudflare announced announces that users would be able to sync their computer's time securely with Cloudflare's [[{{w|Network Time Protocol]] }} (NTP) service. Cloudflare's time service will would allow users to connect to their NTP server that supports Network Time Security (NTS), enabling users to obtain time in an authenticated manner."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cloudflare.com/time/|title=Cloudflare Time Services|last=|first=|date=|website=Cloudflare|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=August 22, 14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 2019 || July || || "Cloudflare suffered suffers a major outage in July 2019, which rendered renders 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, 14 October 2019}}</ref>

| 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>

| 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" >{{Cite web|url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/|title=Terminating Service for 8Chan|last=Prince|first=Matthew|date=August 5, 2019|website=The Cloudflare Blog|language=en|access-date=14 October 2019}}</ref><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>

| 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"/>

| 2019 || || Product || "In 2019, Cloudflare announced announces a new [[w:Domain name registrar|domain registrar]] service that promised promises to offer low-cost wholesale pricing and easy ways to enable [[w:Domain Name System Security Extensions|DNSSEC]]."