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by _joel 1014 days ago
Just keep the NS set to the original DNS? I've done that with cloudflare before and not needed to transfer in the whole DNS.
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schemescape 1014 days ago
The Cloudflare FAQ says you have to set the authoritative name servers to Cloudflare’s: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/faq/#what-happen...

If that’s not the case, then I’m definitely misunderstanding something about DNS!

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bandergirl 1014 days ago
That's correct, you cannot change the name servers of a domain purchased on Cloudflare, but you don't have to use their proxy.

I have yet to see a DNS zone manager as good as CloudFlare, so I've been using it anyway for the past 10 years for all of my domains.

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schemescape 1014 days ago
Thanks! In retrospect, that doesn’t seem like a big deal. I guess I’m effectively paying $1/year for the option of being able to change authoritative name servers to whatever I want (and the privilege of using Porkbun’s presumably worse interface).

I’ll admit I was already a little biased against Cloudflare because one time I got caught by their infinite captcha (maybe due to my OS not being up to date because it was an old computer? I’ll never know…).

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