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Do Cloudflare still restrict you to only their nameservers?

• neocritter 2y ago
  Changing it is part of one of their paid things for some reason.
• rob 2y ago
  > 6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS. https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/ https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/
• mythz 2y ago
  Yeah looks like it, says you'd need to upgrade to their Business plan to specify Custom Nameservers. But haven't needed to as it still lets me have non-proxied DNS A/CNAME/MX entries to elsewhere.
• tfsh 2y ago
  Not allowing custom nameservers is the one thing stopping me from switching to Cloudflare. Bit of a shame, as I had a bunch of domains with Google, which I suppose are now owned by Squarespace, which is a company I never saw myself using...
  • chrisdsaldivar 2y ago
    Can I ask when/why you would use custom name servers? I’m unfamiliar with them.
    • kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
      Letting an email provider manage the domain.
    • tfsh 2y ago
      My reason is so that I can manage the DNS from a different place. I use Digital Ocean to manage all my servers, and they have a DNS management interface where you can add domains, I prefer their UI and it has some nice integrations with their other services (e.g auto complete for VPS IPs).