Set up a primary zone (Full setup) — by Cloudflare

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Walks through making Cloudflare your authoritative DNS by adding the domain and changing nameservers at your registrar. It stresses checking records first, turning off DNSSEC before the switch, and verifying with dig. Warns that propagation can take up to 24 hours.

Quick steps

Copy the two Cloudflare nameservers
Turn off DNSSEC at the registrar if enabled
Replace the registrar's nameservers with Cloudflare's exactly
Verify with the dashboard or dig ns <domain> @1.1.1.1
Re-enable DNSSEC through Cloudflare once active

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Source: Set up a primary zone (Full setup) by Cloudflare. Licence: Link only (©).

Source reviewed: 2026-11-02
Link checked: 2026-11-02
Tested hands-on: Not by Oddbyte.Me

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