I received a confusing email from Cloudflare about SSL certificate renewal

What is the name of the domain?

What is the error message?

My hosting provider confirmed Cloudflare does not host my SSL so I don’t understand why I got the email below

What is the issue you’re encountering

Confusion over how to resolve an email message

What is the current SSL/TLS setting?

Off

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

I received this email:

As part of the Cloudflare SSL certificate renewal process, we need you to re-approve the domain www.alloverthemaphousing.com so that we can re-issue SSL certificates for use on our network.

If you previously validated this domain using the HTTP DCV method, you are receiving this email because:

www.alloverthemaphousing.com no longer resolves to Cloudflare’s edge, and we cannot automatically complete the renewal process.
Recent CA/B forum rule changes state that HTTP DCV is no longer permitted for wildcard certificates.
Add the DNS records shown below to avoid certificate expiration or remove the hostname if no longer in use. Your current certificate expires on Thu Sep 19 06:14:26 +0000 2024. If you are unable to complete validation by the expiration date, Cloudflare will remove this certificate from the edge. Add the following TXT entries to your authoritative DNS provider:

The domain was using Cloudflare until August 12th as you can see here:

If you no longer want to use Cloudflare, you don’t need to worry about the certificate expiring.

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