#What happens to domains that become expired and CF removes them automatically?

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lone girder
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Are there somewhere cached or archived at least? I have some clients who don't always pay on time and CF removes their domains quite promptly. And it's quite PITA to recover all the domain configurations, dns, rules, WAFs etc.
is there nay way to recover that?

radiant wrenBOT
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According to the documentation, deleted domains are archived, and Cloudflare still responds to DNS queries for deleted zones on the assigned Cloudflare nameserver IPs (for non-deleted DNS records). However, it's not possible to restore DNS or settings for deleted domains. Cloudflare support is unable to restore deleted domains. (Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/troubleshooting/domain-deleted/)

Additionally, it's mentioned that after being deleted for seven days, zones are automatically purged. (Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/reference/domain-status/)

Unfortunately, it seems that there is no way to recover the domain configurations, DNS, rules, WAFs, etc. for deleted domains. You may need to re-add the domain to Cloudflare and reconfigure the settings manually. (Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/troubleshooting/domain-deleted/)

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lone girder
# radiant wren

I wonder if there some DNS cache services that migth have in their history?

radiant wrenBOT
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According to the documentation, third-party tools can sometimes fail to return correct DNS results if a recursive DNS cache fails to refresh. (Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/troubleshooting/unexpected-dns-records/)

It's possible that some DNS cache services might have a history of DNS records, but it's not guaranteed. You can try checking with services like MXToolbox, which is mentioned in the documentation as a tool for looking up DNS records. (Source: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/904868)

Additionally, you can also try checking with other DNS cache services or recursive DNS resolvers to see if they have any cached records for the deleted domain. However, please note that this is not a reliable method and the availability of cached records is not guaranteed.

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golden stratus
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Though it does not update immediately so there may be some data loss

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