Change root domain's authoritative NS away from Cloudflare

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Hi,

I am on a free Cloudflare account and my domain registrar is also CF. I am not able to find any settings to change the authoritative Nameservers for domains purchased through CF.

Just like a domain purchase from godaddy can be configured to use CF as its authoritative NS without domain transfer - what I want is exactly opposite - domain purchased via CF to be configured with godaddy’s DNS as authoritative and configure it’s DNSSEC here in CF.

Please help,
Best regards

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6.1 in the Domain Registration Agreement states that you cannot change the nameservers:

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.

Domain Registration Agreement | Cloudflare

You’ll either need to use Cloudflare’s DNS and get a list of the required records from your host, or transfer your domain elsewhere to change the nameservers.

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Thanks for a quick reply Albert.

My actual use-case is that I buy and take care of renewals for 10+ domains of my friends and family. This is easy since they are centrally managed by godaddy’s dashboard; and I have pointed each domain NS to the friend’s individual CF account and they can do as they please thereafter.

CF registrar rates are very attractive so I want to bring all domains to my personal account, however, still want the domains to be pointed to the friend/family’s independent CF accounts so that they can manage only their domains and not require access to mine.

Is there any other way I can achieve this under free tier?

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Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the name servers when using Cloudflare Registrar. Domains have to be registered with the account they are used in.

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You can absolutely do this though. You can invite another Cloudflare account to manage a domain that is registered under your account. So each friend could still have access to their domain without requiring full access to your account.

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