Adding new domains - You have exceeded the limit for adding zones. Please activate some zones

[it1343]

I added 50 free domains yesterday to our account and couldn’t add more.

I see there was a limit of inactive accounts.

Since then, we have had about 20 of them become active and are up and running.

Yet we still get the error “You have exceeded the limit for adding zones. Please activate some zones.”

Do we have to wait for all 50 to become active before more can be added, or does it take a while to check the active ones? Ideally I want to add about 20 more.

This is all being done manually through the dashboard

[fritex]

May I ask if you’re doing this via the Cloudflare dashboard, or via the Cloudflare API?

@it1343

Yet we still get the error “You have exceeded the limit for adding zones. Please activate some zones.”

@it1343

This is all being done manually through the dashboard

Nevertheless, if all are in pending state checking for nameserver, then make sure to correctly set the domain nameservers to point to the assigned ones from your CF account under the domain registrar interface.

Once they’d propagate and can be seen on the WHOIS, you’d get an e-mail notification about the zone being active.

@it1343

Do we have to wait

Helpful answers here:

Problem with Too many requests (Code: 1118) when trying to add bigger amount of domains

We have limits on the number of pending zones allowed at any one time. If you’ve added dozens/hundreds/thousands of domains you will need to verify/validate pending domains before we’ll allow more to be added/increase the number of allowed pending zones.

You have exceeded the limit for adding zones. Please activate some zones

You should activate some of your pending zones as the message indicates before trying to add more.

Getting below error when trying to add zones with the API

Hi @can6600, ah, the error is not regarding the rate of requests, it applies to number of pending zones in your account. This has been seen on this site a few times, here is an ExpertTip about the error, Problem with Too many requests (Code: 1118) when trying to add bigger amount of domains. Validate some of the zones and you’ll be able to proceed.

[it1343]

My question is this:

We have 50 domains added to our account manually through the portal.

20 of them are active.

Why do we get this error and why can we not add any more?

Do we have to wait for the remaining 30 to also become active?