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by tomklein 1095 days ago
iirc, custom DNS at CF refers to using your own subdomains as name servers for CF instead of the regular *.ns.cloudflare.com. Basically a form of whitelabelling.

Specifying 3rd party name servers as your domain’s name server was (still is?) not possible with Cloudflare Registrar.

(Disclaimer: I work there)
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lpgauth 1095 days ago
It’s pretty crazy that you can’t setup a custom 3rd party name server. I can’t even transfer my domain from one Cloudflare account to another without transferring my domain to another registrar…
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1una 1095 days ago
That's the strategy. They offer "at-cost pricing", but force you to use their own name server.
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account42 1095 days ago
Kinda feels like restrictions on what you can submit to the registry (NS and glue records) should be something ICANN forbids.
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rekoil 1095 days ago
Thank you for this information, I was planning to move my domains.google domains to Cloudflare, but now I think I won't do that. I'll still use Cloudflare, but the inability to use my own NS is a dealbreaker for using Cloudflare as a registrar in my opinion.
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qodeninja 1095 days ago
exactly. just as I was considering moving to CF this changed my entire mind.
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