You can register domains with Cloudflare also: https://blog.cloudflare.com/registrar-for-everyone/

Do you know if/when cloud flare will offer registration/ renewal through an api?

Gandi will suspend your domains for no reason and hold them hostage until you provide photographic ID proof, stay away.

Really? I've been dealing with Gandi for something like 20 years and have never before now heard of anything like this, nor experienced it.

Some evidence, please.

I also rate Gandi. I'm also surprised to hear of shenanigans.

But the GP's story is about identity verification; I don't see that as a particularly egregious "shenanigan".

Can't speak to that specific complaint, but Gandi has had other issues in the past.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001822

There’s no excuse to ask for an ID scan to “verify identity” when you can buy a really really good quality automatically generated fake id scan for $5.

Would maybe be defensible if they asked for actually verifiable information, like a dump of the cryptographically signed contents of your chipped passport (haha).

To repeat: I've never been asked to provide anything of the sort to Gandi.