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That is essentially the pitch.

The CloudFlare Registrar would auto-renew your domain a year in advance, aggressively lock it and prevent transfer, and allow you to require multiple people in your organisation to approve significant changes.

Any registrar that is selling you a domain for $10 per year is making such razor thin margins that they cannot do more than the minimum and rarely enforce doing that with diligence.

I was rather pleased that one of my domains ultimately is managed by an arcane human process involving actually dealing with a bureaucracy... this slows everything down so much that it's hard to achieve anything at all. It was entirely accidental, the domain has a .sm TLD and that municipality is tiny.

What CloudFlare are effectively doing is using a highly bureaucratic and formal process to ensure the domains are safe and secure, to mitigate the risks involved. That your organisation can shape the policy you want is also a benefit, you can ensure only the real decision makers get to authorise changes.