Can not create a/aaaa/cname record with the name "chat". which does NOT exist

What is the name of the domain?

esocoding.dev

What is the error message?

An A, AAAA, or CNAME record with that host already exists. For more details, refer to …

What is the issue you’re encountering

Can’t add the record “chat” because it says it already exists, but its not in the DNS list, and can’t find any other place where it might possibly exist.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Use dig, which clearly shows chat.esocoding.dev exists, even tough its not in the control panel in the DNS record list.
Removed all records and recreate.

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

DNS records

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Simply adding the record “chat” as a/aaaa/cname would result in a error it already exists, which again it does not.

chat.esocoding.dev CNAMEs to 7ecb081790fe4d528254f149b2710d3b.pacloudflare.com which looks like a record for a Spectrum application. Do you have anything here?
https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/:zone/spectrum

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