Hi, soon I’m registering a domain from a ccTLD that charges for nameserver changes, so I would much rather forward a sub-domain from another domain I have to Cloudflare’s nameservers so I can easily change nameserver addresses if I ever need to.
I was hoping someone that had some experience doing something like this in the past could verify this is possible, or could give me a reason why it won’t work?
The only thing I’m worried about is, would I set it as an A address, or a nameserver, and can I just look up the IP of Cloudflare’s nameservers and use that, because it requires an IP not a name address.
I plan on testing when I have more time and will report back if no one has responded with their results, just hoping to get any input
sorry, you misunderstood, I want to keep one of my domain’s nameservers outside of Cloudflare and then point a few sub-domains to the nameservers that Cloudflare gives me, so that I can easily change nameservers by pointing the subdomains to different nameservers when needed
the reason for doing this, is .VI ccTLD charges $10 fee to make changes to nameservers or contact information.
but I’m not sure if it’s possible with nameservers, because I believe they are different DNS records than A record, or if Cloudflare’s nameserver IP addresses are static, which would cause problems because it’s not possible to point a domain to another name address
That’s pretty much what custom nameservers are (there’s also a bit more you need to do such as glue records otherwise things get a bit cyclic… how does one resolve ns1.example.com when the example.com lookups are made on ns1.example.com etc.).
Available on Business and Enterprise plans only, I believe.
