Hi. I need to connect my domain to Mailchimp. Mailchimp has given me a value to copy into the CNAME record and a value to copy into the A record.
When I go to add a DNS record in Cloudflare, I’m asked for a “name” and a “target” for the CNAME and a “name” and a “IPv4 address” for the A record - these are all required.
I assume that the values given to my by Mailchimp do into “target” and “IPv4 address”, respectively. But what am I supposed to enter into the required “name” fields? Thank you!
Or do I use “@” for the “name”?
Welcome to the Cloudflare Community.
If you are trying connect a domain or subdomain to use with a website or landing page, step 6 under Connect a domain in the linked article shows www in the CNAME. The A record is for your apex name and as you indicated in your reply, you enter @ into Cloudflare to create that A record.
You may be able to leave the CNAME for a Mailchimp website set to 
to use the Cloudflare proxy. It depends on whether Mailchimp checks for the CNAME record you created. When a CNAME is it publishes synthetic A and AAAA records containing Cloudflare proxy IPs.
If you are setting up email domain authentication which involves creating CNAMEs for your DKIM records. The picture in step 7 of the Mailchimp guide I linked indicates that the name is provided.
When entering it into Cloudflare you need to stop after k1._domainkey so that you don’t wind up with k1._domainkey.example.com.example.com. Cloudflare has a preview of the record you are creatingthat should make it easy to verify that your record is correct before your save it.
Make sure those CNAMEs are set to 
DNS Only.
Thank you so much for the detailed and helpful response. It’s much appreciated.
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