Currently, domains registered with Cloudflare Registrar cannot be transferred between Cloudflare accounts. This is a request to add the ability to transfer domains registered in one Cloudflare account to another Cloudflare account
This inability to transfer between accounts can be a significant roadblock. A person may have to go through the process of transferring domains out to another registrar and waiting the 60-day period before I they transfer them into my clients’ Cloudflare account.
Please Upvote this post if you would like to see this feature added to the Cloudflare Registrar service.
This is a serious issue. If you bought the domain w/ Cloudflare you actually end up with a 120-day turn around (two 60 day blackout periods). Basically it makes it near impossible to do anything constructive.
I am a bit confused and I am looking for a bit of clarification. Below is a link to transferring a domain between Cloudflare accounts only you cannot. I have attempted the process only now I need to modify the DNS entries in order to complete the transfer. I have to upgrade to Business on a non-business account in order to modify DNS records. Can someone from Cloudflare confirm this? I do not want to upgrade to Business only to find out that I cannot complete this transfer. Otherwise, I am with tgahn and michael.t.yan on a 120-day lockout. Thank you.
How is this not a thing yet? It’s such a simple and necessary part of managing domains. A 60 day lockout to transfer out and back in to a different account is a bit much.
It’s crazy that this isn’t a thing already. I registered a domain for a new company we are creating and now I will have to give the company access to my personal account because it is impossible to transfer it?! Not cool. I am really hoping this will get implemented soon!
This is a MUST-HAVE feature!
Especially in cases when you want to take ownership and management of your domains - for example, after an agency registered and managed these domains initially.
How, in the year 2023, where we have self driving cars, autonomous drones, AI that can write college theses, dna editing… how is this not possible? I gotta pay another registrar for a years worth of service just to transfer out? This is unbelievable. Frankly I’m shocked.
The only problem with this method is if the customer ever decided to leave your services. They’d be crippled with no ability to properly migrate away and would either have to leave Cloudflare for 60 days, or stay stuck in a position where their previous MSP (or whatever you’d like to call them) will always retain ownership/control.
If the customer does decided to opt for leaving Cloudflare, there’s a sure chance they’ll need a system to “fill in” for Cloudflare in those 60 days. No telling that the alternative system they use doesn’t become their new permanent system, thus causing Cloudflare to lose a customer outright (especially if said experience gives them a bad taste).
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate Cloudflare in so many ways and would back them completely. However, as much as Cloudflare is for security and doing things right, this is surely a miss on their part both on security and customer obsession. Even if support had to be involved to fulfill this request, it would be better than nothing.
The situation you describe doesn’t exist when client properties are kept in their own Cloudflare accounts in accordance with best practices. Placing client domains in third-party Cloudflare accounts is problematic and not advisable.
The situation does exist for businesses new to managing domains, or perhaps even hobbyists that went commercial and need to fork off their own personal account to a business setting. The list goes on.
If I were working for an MSP (which I have) and it involved customer domain management, I would certainly deploy accounts per-customer, and link them under our own shared account for our team to be able to manage properly, while allowing the customer to easily and securely break away from our company if they so choose to do so (which I did). I’m not saying I don’t do it or that this is a “safety net” for those who continue that practice. I’d certainly agree to separate them out. That doesn’t mean it was always done that way, and everyone has their own reasons to need to transfer domains.
The bottom line is, this is a simple request (albeit the way Cloudflare handles the domain management might be a bit more complex to handle this request, sure) and should be made available in some method, even if Support has to get involved. I’m not sure about others, but I know I’d be happy with a 60 day migration delay for transfers within Cloudflare (as in, this being low priority, maybe less for pro+) if I had to wait an extended period. At least I wouldn’t have to worry about losing access to much, and the transfer could be smoother on the customer end. Just tossing out thoughts at this point.
Damn, just realised I wasted over an hour preparing for a migration
Been a CF customer for over a decade now and recently launched a startup, yay. Proof of concept was on my personal CF account. Now created a new account (dev@mystartup[dot]com) to act as my organisation and add my devs to it. You know, to detach dependency on me. I’m not sure whether I’m more surprised or disappointed that this is not possible.
You cannot move a domain registration directly to another account, but that needn’t prevent you from moving the domain to another Cloudflare account.
It currently does require transferring the domain registration to a third-party party registrar temporarily. If you want to move registration back to Cloudflare, you certainly can after the sixty day transfer lock expires.
We have decided to split up our business brand that was managed solely by our company, and we have decided to split our Cloudflare account into several separate accounts for each brand. We have problems transferring domains.
How is this not available yet? I would never have purchased domains for my clients under my account had I known that I could not transfer domains to other CF accounts.
I also want this. I registered a work domain under my personal account, then created a corporate account, then needed to transfer the domain to the corporate account.
I hope that this gets implemented soon. I would have been more strategic if I had known that it was not possible to Registrar transfer between Cloudflare accounts. I suggest more transparent documentation for “Move a domain between Cloudflare accounts.” https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/setup/manage-domains/move-domain It does state within the documentation you need to transfer your domain to another Registrar. But should warn users at the top of the documentation that it is not for Cloudflare Registrar users. And not misleading users that you can move any domain between Cloudflare accounts.As the title suggests.
