Transfer domain

[coral jay]

I need to transfer a domain from an other registrar to cloudflare but i am stuck at the very frist step, cloudflare is telling me it is "Unsupported"

[solid condor]

Some CC TLDs are not supported by Cloudflare registry, e.g. .it .de .sh etc

[coral jay]

it is a .it domain

[solid condor]

Yes. Italy, that is not supported.

[coral jay]

wtf

[solid condor]

CC TLD

[coral jay]

thanks, ill transfer it somewhere else

[solid condor]

Use another registrar for those domains and point the authoritative nameservers to Cloudflare, that has basically the same effect as registry transfer

[modern spear]

hey, i have a similar case. I want to transfer six domains from OVH to CF (UK, IT, FR, ES, PL, NL, BE). I managed to add some of them to the panel and then changed the DNS name servers in OVH to the dedicated that CF provided me.

Now i see "Active" status next to two of them but when trying to transfer them it says "Unsupported" - I do understand that CF does not support these (FR, IT) to transfer, so is it fine to keep them on OVH but have them added to CF panel (with changed DNS)? Does it mean they are secured by CF but still OVH host them?

and last but not least - what other types of zones are not supported?

thank you

[solid condor]

You do not need to transfer a domain to Cloudflare to use Cloudflare. It is enough to point the nameservers to Cloudflare (make Cloudflare the authoritative namserver for a domain).

You can continue to use any DNS registrar you like for your domains, it will make no difference.

[modern spear]

Thanks @solid condor. So i only change these to CF's and it's done? DNS Records change automatically?

[solid condor]

You have to setup the actual records (e.g. A/AAAA/TXT) on Cloudflare, but the workflow should have asked for auto-detecting most of them.

[modern spear]

Ok, so it's just a matter of changing DNS in my hosting provider panel, right?

[solid condor]

Yes, that is all you need to do to use Cloudflare with all features.

[modern spear]

Great, thank you