Thiết lập primary zone (Full setup) Change your nameservers (Full setup)

Since the quick scan is not guaranteed to find all existing DNS records, you need to review your records, paying special attention to the following:

• Zone apex records (example.com)

More about zone apex records Zone apex refers to the domain or subdomain that you are adding to Cloudflare. Usually, the zone apex record makes your domain accessible by visitors. In this case, the necessary record type (A, AAAA, or CNAME) and its content will depend on the provider that hosts your website or application. If you are using Cloudflare Workers, refer to Custom domains. If you are using other providers, look for their guidance on how to connect domains managed on external DNS services. Then, make sure you have the records required by your hosting provider on your DNS records table at Cloudflare.

• Subdomain records (www.example.com or blog.example.com)

More about subdomain records Most subdomains serve a specific purpose within the overall context of your website. For example, blog.example.com might be your blog, support.example.com could be your customer help portal, and store.example.com would be your e-commerce site. Even if you do not require specific subdomains, you might want to set up at least a subdomain record on www. It will usually point to the same content as what you have on the apex domain (example.com) or use a redirect. Having a subdomain DNS record on www helps guarantee that a visitor who types www. in front of your domain address can still find your website or application.

• Email records

More about email records Depending on your business needs, you can configure DNS records so that you can use your domain to receive emails, receive and send emails from your domain, or prevent others from sending emails on your behalf (spoofing). Below are some examples of what those DNS records might look like. The exact values for your DNS mail records depend on your email provider. If you have issues, review the Troubleshooting and contact your email service provider to confirm your DNS records are correct. | Type | Name | Content | Proxy status | TTL | | ---- | -------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------ | ---- | | A | mail | 192.0.2.1 | DNS Only | Auto | | MX | example.com | 5 john.mx.example-server.test | DNS Only | Auto | | TXT | \dmarc | "v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=... | DNS Only | Auto | | TXT | \*.\domainkey | "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=..." | DNS Only | Auto | | TXT | example.com | "v=spf1 ip4:..." | DNS Only | Auto |

Each A, AAAA, and CNAME record has a proxy status toggle:

• Proxied (orange cloud): web traffic goes through the Cloudflare network, which provides caching, DDoS protection, and other security features.
• DNS only (gray cloud): Cloudflare returns the DNS record value but does not proxy traffic. Use this for CNAME records that verify your domain for third-party services.

• Dashboard
• API

Your assigned nameservers are displayed as part of the onboarding flow. If you need to find them once again, go the zone Overview page.

Go to Overview

Required API token permissions

At least one of the following token permissionsis required:

• Trust and Safety Write
• Trust and Safety Read
• Zero Trust: PII Read
• Zaraz Edit
• Zaraz Read
• Zaraz Admin
• Access: Apps and Policies Revoke
• Access: Apps and Policies Write
• Access: Apps and Policies Read
• Access: Apps and Policies Revoke
• Access: Mutual TLS Certificates Write
• Access: Organizations, Identity Providers, and Groups Write
• Zone Settings Write
• Zone Settings Read
• Zone Read
• DNS Read
• Workers Scripts Write
• Workers Scripts Read
• Zone Write
• Workers Routes Write
• Workers Routes Read
• Stream Write
• Stream Read
• SSL and Certificates Write
• SSL and Certificates Read
• Logs Write
• Logs Read
• Cache Purge
• Page Rules Write
• Page Rules Read
• Load Balancers Write
• Load Balancers Read
• Firewall Services Write
• Firewall Services Read
• DNS Write
• Apps Write
• Analytics Read
• Access: Apps and Policies Write
• Access: Apps and Policies Read

Zone Details

curl "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID" \

  --request GET \

  --header "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"

Cloudflare automatically assigns nameservers to a domain and these assignments cannot be changed. For more details, refer to Nameserver assignments.

Log in to the admin account for your domain registrar. If you do not know your provider, use ICANN Lookup ↗.

Depending on your use case, you may have to perform this step on the DNS records management of your domain parent zone, or at a domain reseller, instead. Refer to Nameservers for details.

If your domain has DNSSEC1 active, you must turn it off at your registrar before replacing nameservers. Changing nameservers while DNSSEC is active can cause your domain to become unreachable. You can re-enable DNSSEC through Cloudflare after your domain is active.

Provider-specific DNSSEC instructions

This is not an exhaustive list, but the following links may be helpful:

• DNSimple ↗
• Domaindiscount24 ↗
• DreamHost ↗
• Dynadot ↗
• Enom ↗
• Gandi ↗
• GoDaddy ↗
• Hostinger ↗
• Hover ↗
• Infomaniak ↗
• InMotion Hosting ↗
• INWX ↗
• Joker.com ↗
• Name.com ↗
• Namecheap ↗
• NameISP ↗
• Namesilo ↗
• OVH ↗
• Squarespace ↗
• Registro.br ↗
• Porkbun ↗ (do not fill out keyData)
• TransIP ↗

If your previous provider allows you to add DNSKEY records on the zone apex and use these records in responses to DNS queries, refer to this migration tutorial to learn how to migrate a zone with DNSSEC enabled.

1. Remove your existing authoritative nameservers.
2. Add the nameservers provided by Cloudflare. If their names are not copied exactly, your DNS will not resolve correctly.

Provider-specific instructions

This is not an exhaustive list of provider-specific instructions, but the following links may be helpful:

• Ionos ↗
• 101Domain ↗
• Amazon ↗
• Blacknight ↗
• BlueHost ↗
• DirectNIC ↗
• DNSMadeEasy ↗
• Domain.com ↗
• Dotster ↗
• DreamHost ↗
• EasyDNS ↗
• Enom ↗
• Fast Domain ↗
• FlokiNET ↗
• Gandi ↗
• GoDaddy ↗
• HostGator ↗
• Hostico ↗
• HostMonster ↗
• Hover ↗
• Internetdbs ↗
• iPage ↗
• MelbourneIT ↗
• Moniker ↗
• Name.com ↗
• Namecheap ↗
• Network Solutions ↗
• OVH ↗
• Porkbun ↗
• Rackspace ↗
• Register ↗
• Squarespace ↗
• Site5 ↗
• Softlayer ↗
• Yola ↗

To avoid common issues, refer to our Nameserver replacement checklist.

Wait up to 24 hours while your registrar updates your nameservers.

When your domain is Active:

• You will receive an email from Cloudflare.
• Your domain will have a status of Active on the Domains page of your account.
• Online tools such as https://www.whatsmydns.net/ ↗ will show your Cloudflare-assigned nameservers (most of these tools use cached query results, so it may take longer for them to show the updated nameservers).
• CLI commands will show your Cloudflare-assigned nameservers

*macOS/Linux*


whois <DOMAIN_NAME>

dig ns <DOMAIN_NAME> @1.1.1.1

dig ns <DOMAIN_NAME> @8.8.8.8

dig <DOMAIN_NAME> +trace


*Windows*


nslookup -type=ns <DOMAIN_NAME> 1.1.1.1

nslookup -type=ns <DOMAIN_NAME> 8.8.8.8

If you see unexpected results, refer to our troubleshooting suggestions and check with your domain registrar.