"Zone Hold" on owned zone

What is the name of the domain?

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What is the error number?

Code 1120

What is the error message?

Cannot signup the subdomain as a partial setup zone when its parent is an existing full setup zone

What is the issue you’re encountering

Cannot remove zone lock from owned zone

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

I’m trying to add a zone for a customer of mine but we’re seeing that there is a zone hold preventing us from adding the zone.

Our assumption is that there is a zone owned by different vendor that they no longer use and that the vendor has a lock on the zone.

We have contacted support and their generic answer is to contact the owner of the zone with the hold. It doesn’t seem like a solution to have to negotiate with an ex-vendor to get a lock removed for a zone they own. What if they refuse or are no longer in business?

The biggest problem here is that a domain owned by our customer is locked by a third party without any ability to remove that control. So this means that the vendor can hold the zone hostage and prevent our customer from using Cloudflare unless they decide to remove the lock? In addition to this - we don’t even know if it is indeed a lock from the said vendor, it could be any company that ever had control over a zone they no longer own.

How can we get this lock removed and/or remove the vendor’s control of the zone?

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

Try to create a zone via the API or web UI.

Screenshot of the error

Ask the previous vendor to remove the zone hold. If they don’t or can’t be reached, then re-open the ticket and explain.

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