Hello everyone, I am trying to put some services expose in the internet, right now they are in my tailscale net but I don’t want to expose them via tailscale funnel and think cloudflare tunnel is better but the the catch is I need a domain to do that. Right now I am using tailscale with duckdns and I can’t pay for a domain, any suggestions how can I make this work?
You can get free subdomains from various places and some of them meet the requirements to be set up as domains on Cloudflare (free plan) but most don’t. General requirements: must be on the public suffix list (PSL), must have a whois server, must allow nameservers to be set for the subdomain
eu.org subdomains are Cloudflare-compatible, that’s really the only one I know of offhand, but apparently the maintainer went silent months ago and new subdomain requests are not being approved
afraid.org, duckdns, noip.com, a few others I can’t remember right now – not Cloudflare-compatible (on the free plan at least) because they don’t meet the requirements.
I can’t pay for a domain
you aware there are domains like .win that are around $3/year (US), right?
or you can get a numeric .XYZ domain for $1/year?
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Tailscale is (probably) safer than CF.
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You could use Netbird, which establishes encrypted point-to-point connections (no VPN) using Tailscale’s tech.
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What’s wrong with DuckDNS for this purpose, too? It’s free and it works, so…?
Not everything is free in this world,
atleast pay for domain if you want use CF tunnel and SSL.
1$ per year is impossible to spend?
Purchase a .xyz domain from namesilo…
If it’s 6 numbers long no letters its 99cents a year.
10 years 10 usd
If you are still waiting for something, Cloudns provides a domain with the extension cloudns.ph and cloudns.nz, it can be added to Cloudflare, all you have to do is change the nameserver.
If you’re looking to remain anonymous both will take ALOT of time. Take it from me. I’m a wife of almost 20 years. You can never remain completely anonymous.
Well, I tried nic.eu.org and found out people that are waiting for subdomains for months so I guess I will get the same.
Do you know any other alternative?
And yes I am aware that a domain might be 3 dollars, I still can’t pay for them.
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Even when exposing a service to the internet for everyone to use?
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Didn’t know of that, I will search and tell you more about it, thanks!
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It works very well, just don’t work with cloudflare tunnels.
- Hey, what you mean by “no vpn” and “using tailscale’s tech”? Also, would you recommend net bird over tailscale? If so why?
Also if you don’t mind the question, from all you prefer tailscale, zerotier or net bird?
does it work with CGNAT?
Nope that is not viable
This seems to be no longer true. When I create a new zone under DNS Hosting of cloudns.net, I can only choose .ip-ddns.com, .ddns-ip.net, .ip-dynamic.org, or .cloud-ip.biz. Are we talking about the same service or am I doing anything wrong?
I can add it in cloud flare but dns record don’t work 
It doesn’t update the SOA records when I change the name servers
I’m not aware of any other Cloudflare-compatible subdomain services that are still in operation but I haven’t done a comprehensive search so maybe there’s something I don’t know about.
If $3 is too much, what about the $1 numeric .XYZ domains? Can you dig four quarters out of your couch cushions? Or check the ground outside a drive-through window, or look under a vending machine, or in a fountain?
damn thats kinda sad you should have gotten a domain from nic.eu.org when freenom was still up because i got 3 domains now
- The only relevant piece is the service here.
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You can’t use Tailscale for that (afaik).
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I already told you, so there’s probably no need for you to tell me about it
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True.
I use and prefer Netbird. While Wireguard/Tailscale establish encrypted VPN tunnels, Netbird establishes direct point-to-point connections between clients (meaning one less attack vector) using the same encryption.
I’ve loved it since I discovered it.