How exactly does this happen in practice? When you add a domain to a Cloudflare account, can that domain actually "expire" and no longer be attached to the account? Or can the account itself and all the domains in it expire?
I don't see why Cloudflare would do this. If you stop paying for a paid tier, I figure your account and the domains associated with it would still exist in the free tier. I can see how this could happen if you manually remove the domain from your account but don't change the nameservers (at least before they fixed it so the previous nameservers will never be assigned to the same domain in the future), but when would Cloudflare automatically expire the domains from an account or automatically expire an account itself?
(I can potentially see this happening for providers that don't have free tiers.)
> How exactly does this happen in practice? When you add a domain to a Cloudflare account, can that domain actually "expire" and no longer be attached to the account?
Basically yes. When you have a domain in setup in CF (free tier), and the domain expires CF will inform you "nameservers no longer point to CF" and then if you do nothing, CF will remove that domain from your account. This process might have been altered, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't see why Cloudflare would do this. If you stop paying for a paid tier, I figure your account and the domains associated with it would still exist in the free tier. I can see how this could happen if you manually remove the domain from your account but don't change the nameservers (at least before they fixed it so the previous nameservers will never be assigned to the same domain in the future), but when would Cloudflare automatically expire the domains from an account or automatically expire an account itself?
(I can potentially see this happening for providers that don't have free tiers.)