How to disable dns records auto import when i add new domain?

[user9130]

When adding a domain, they don’t ask me if I need to import all dns records from the previous dns server. And because of this, I have to delete 50-100 dns records manually because they were registered by the domain registrar when it was created and have nothing to do with my servers

[michael]

This is probably the best response on this topic:

I want to add a domain without any DNS records

You can definitely start from scratch. But if you do it from the dashboard, it’ll auto-scan those records. There has been mention of a jump_start (false) option with the API to skip the record scan, but that does not seem to exist (or work). You could point your name servers somewhere else, like a setup at he.net (you’ll need a free account there) as a staging DNS, so Cloudflare will only scan those records. Or…suffer the addition of all those records, then run a script to delete them with a …