Switch Nameservers to CF is in limbo

What is the name of the domain?

covfairfield.org

What is the error message?

“not active on Cloudflare yet”

What is the issue you’re encountering

URGENT: Switch Nameservers from SiteGround to CF, ICANN shows switched, CF doesn’t notice, DNS & domain go down

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

(malfunction has happened twice, one week apart)

Last week:
-Waited, saw propagation start at DNS Propagation Checker - Global DNS Testing Tool, confirmed authoritative at ICANN Lookup
-Saw CF still report “not active on Cloudflare yet”, check CF Nameservers and got “[1.1.1.1] can’t find covfairfield.org: Server failed”
→ Note this should NOT be able to happen per CF’s claim that “While in this pending state, Cloudflare will respond to DNS queries on your assigned nameservers.”
-Try refresh caches at Limpiar caché  |  Public DNS  |  Google for Developers and 1.1.1.1 — One of the Internet’s Fastest, Privacy-First DNS Resolver, and repeat^
(Due to outage and assuming CF malfunction, switched NS back to SiteGround)

Retry this week:
-Same so far^
-read relevant docs in help center
-try to find Diagnostic Center but it’s MIA
-try https://discord.cloudflare.com/ > Accept Invite, but “Whoops… Unable to accept invite”
-create this support request

What feature, service or problem is this related to?

Nameservers

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

CF: setup domain in CF,
SiteGround: switch Namesservers to CF’s specified maya.ns.cloudflare.com and noah.ns.cloudflare.com
Wait for everything to fail

There are no Cloudflare nameservers resolving for your domain…
https://cf.sjr.dev/tools/check?90cabc947fe7487fa27f3ec79d62f2ac#dns

This usually means either…

  • you have not selected a plan, the zone status will be showing as “Setup” on your Overview page - make sure to select a plan (free/pro/business), or
  • you have mistyped your domain name when adding it to Cloudflare

If unsure can you show a screenshot of your domain overview page from the Cloudflare dashboard.

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[Headsmack]

It’s .ORG not .COM. Decades in and I can still goof up.

Thank you SJR!

Cool CF tools by the way – is that site the equivalent of the now-MIA Diagnostic Center?

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