I have bought a webshop witch had its dns hosted at Cloudflare. So I created a Cloudflare account for myself and created the domain in here.
The seller deleted it form his account.
But now when I try to redelegate (from gene.ns.cloudlfare.com to bill.ns.Cloudflare.com) the registrar won’t take this update. It just says it will update to the same ns-server as it already is.
Can Cloudflare somehow purge this information so that I can redelegate the domain properly ?
I might be wrong but my understanding is it is the classic issue of two Cloudflare accounts with different nameservers where the registrar/registry insists on validating the new nameservers and what is currently announced (the previous ones) and refuses to go any further because of the mismatch.
Generally your registrar should be the first contact but I assume they wont do anything so it most likely will be Cloudflare whom you will eventually have to contact.
OK. Thanks for the help. I will try contacting the registrar first as when I try to submit a request to Cloudflare it only gives me some options to check with this community …
But I am just thinking if cludflare can purge this domain from their records completely then my registrars automatic redelegation system would show correct dns values.
I am thinking they cannot overrule this as the query to Cloudflare gets wrong values returned
They can overrule that just as easily as Cloudflare can purge it.
These values are not wrong in the first place, but currently the valid ones and would only get replaced once you set the nameservers. The issue is the registrar in this case.
Yes. DNS still worked after complete deletion of the domain from his account. So the information must still be in Cloudflare as when I try to redelegate the primary ns to bill.ns.Cloudflare.com my registrars system still tells me it will update the values to “gene and zoe” instead of (correct) “bill and lisa”… Very weird !
Your nameservers are bill and lisa? Cloudflare currently announces gene and zod and those must be from the previous account.
Again, I would bug the registrar as it is them who are the primary reason for that, however a) assuming the zone was removed I’d expect Cloudflare to stop announcing the nameservers and b) I am almost convinced that you will eventually have to contact Cloudflare.
Still, I’d bug the registrar though, just out of principle
Most European registrars will have limitations on assigning different nameservers within the same DNS in case the new domain was active in Cloudflare before. The reason for this is because our nameservers will always respond to the old domain nameserver values instead of the new pending zone.
In such cases it is not be possible to migrate Cloudflare without contacting Cloudflare support.
Before contacting our services, please make sure that any active Cloudflare account is on the deleted state. During this period you might need to revert to the original DNS in order to avoid any downtime.
In order to delete/deactivate the zone from Cloudflare, you can login to our dashboard and click on the ‘Advanced’ link from the Overview tab and click on the ‘Delete’ button.
Once this is done, please create a ticket to support from the Old zone asking the domain to be purged. Only then Cloudflare will be able to respond to the new pending zone nameservers and allow these registrars altering the nameservers.