Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on 4 August 2026. Claiming a handle is live right now. Funding the wallet and paying with it are not — Cloudflare describes full wallet access as available in the coming months.
At cloudflare.pay, with a Cloudflare account. Not here — HandleX is an independent marketplace and does not register, issue or control a single handle.
A Cloudflare account. Cloudflare describes the identity as "a delegate of the account", and the handle sits under cloudflare.pay as a subdomain — the blog’s own example is research.example.cloudflare.pay.
Reserving a handle. That is the whole of it.
Adding and removing funds, paying for APIs and content, and issuing Virtual Wallets to agents. Anyone who thinks they are buying a working payment account today has been misled.
As of 7 August 2026 Cloudflare has published nothing that prohibits selling a handle, and nothing that provides a way to transfer one.
You claim it at cloudflare.pay using a Cloudflare account. Reservation opened on 4 August 2026 and is live now. HandleX cannot claim one for you — we are an independent marketplace and do not register or issue handles.
Cloudflare has not published a pricing statement for handle reservation that we can point to, so we are not going to invent one. Check cloudflare.pay, which is the only authoritative source on it.
No. Claiming is live; funding and paying are not. Cloudflare describes full wallet access — adding and removing funds, paying for APIs and content, issuing Virtual Wallets — as available in the coming months.
It sits under cloudflare.pay as a subdomain. Cloudflare’s own worked example in the launch blog is research.example.cloudflare.pay.
Cloudflare has not published an answer to that. The handle is linked to the account and Cloudflare describes the identity as a delegate of it, but nothing in the launch blog or the press release addresses what happens on closure. We would rather say that than guess.