Those are all part of the DNS.

Look at the amount of coders who can struggle with simple system settings.

Some people only learn what they want to or need to learn, the bare minimum.

They don’t need to know the edge cases to understand the basics of how DNS works. It is a foundational element of how the internet works and any software dev should have at least some fundamental knowledge of it (unless they don’t do anything that ever touched networking which I imagine is rather rare).

While there are certainly complex and weird stuff in the DNS world. The basic of how the DNS works is really not that complicated.

Yeah, but it's not like those comments are making a mistake about how the tech works because they're looking to learn something today. Posting an axe-grinding comment that shows a clear misunderstanding of the technology on a technical forum is an unforced and pretty indefensible error.

> registrar business

They're the registry, not the registrar. CISA is the registrar for .gov domains, Cloudflare just handles the backend. (DNS and whois infrastructure)

Government employees likely never see anything about Cloudflare at all when they manage the DNS settings for domains, just like I never see anything about Charleston Road Registry (Google subsidiary) when I manage a .dev domain on Name.com.

> push their Anti DDoS stuff on a captive audience

How is this a captive audience? Are you implying Cloudflare won't allow .gov domains to use non-cloudflare nameservers?

> push their Anti DDoS stuff on a captive audience

This is a very provocative way to spin “selling the CDN services customers are buying”. What reason do we have to think anyone is an unwilling party to that transaction?

How dare they sell their reliable and popular products at rates untouched by akamai and fastly.