Zone is banned for our domain signage.com

What is the name of the domain?

signage.com

What is the error number?

Zone is temporarily banned

What is the error message?

Zone is temporarily banned

What is the issue you’re encountering

Zone is banned for signage.com. It is a newly acquire domain and never had a website so this is definitely a false positive banning.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Tried email [email protected] and called but no answer or help.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

any actions in cloudflare return the error

I upgraded to the Business plan for the placeholder domain signagedotcom.com due to the urgency of the issue. However, even after upgrading I am not able to use Live Chat as it requests me to upgrade which I already did.

Any help appreciated. Thank you!

Temporary bans are “normally” the result of trying to add a domain too many times in a short period of time, some details here, flip the > to view the deprecated tutorial, Deprecated - Zone Banned and/or Other Zone Restricted Errors

That is not a placeholder, signagedotcom.com is a completely different domain than ‘signage.com. And, signagedotcom.com` does not seem to be a registered domain name…but you own a business plan for that name. You should cancel that plan immediately, it will go into a delayed downgrade but you don’t want to be paying for a plan for a domain that does not exist.

Do you own the name signage.com?

It may be new to you, but does have some history, several years, https://securitytrails.com/domain/signage.com/history/ns (you’ll need a free securitytrails account to see this detail)

Name Servers Organization First Seen Last Seen Duration Seen
ns55.domaincontrol.com
ns56.domaincontrol.com
GoDaddy 2025-02-02 (3 days) 2025-02-04 (today) 2 days
ns01.domaincontrol.com
ns02.domaincontrol.com
GoDaddy 2025-01-03 (1 month) 2025-02-02 (3 days) 1 month
aiden.ns.cloudflare.com
liz.ns.cloudflare.com
Cloudflare, Inc. 2024-07-31 (6 months) 2025-01-03 (1 month) 5 months
ns1.eftydns.com
ns2.eftydns.com
Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2018-08-05 (7 years) 2022-09-04 (2 years) 4 years
ns1.eftydns.com
ns2.eftydns.com
Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2018-02-06 (7 years) 2018-02-10 (7 years) 4 days
dns.site5.com
dns2.site5.com
Unified Layer 2008-09-01 (16 years) 2011-04-26 (14 years) 3 years

You’ll need to create an account ticket with Support to assist, if you were prompted to email abuse that means Support will probably send your ticket to Trust & Safety for them to assist. Once it goes to T&S, neither Support nor the Community Team can see any details.

Sorry for the issues. You may want to disable any ad blockers and log out and back in after clearing cache and try again. Short of creating a ticket via chat, you should create the account ticket and share your ticket number here, You can open an Account ticket here, https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/support

Thanks @cloonan I appreciate the detailed answer. It was helpful. I submitted a ticket so hopefully get back to me soon.

And yes, I own signage.com - signagedotcom.com was just used to try and chat with support. I was willing to pay the $250 fee just to chat with them because they have no phone support. Anyway, I’ll be downgrading it now.

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Can you share that ticket number here?

Also, my colleague indicated you should be able to add the zone, can you try now?

Unfortunately I still cannot manage signage.com in my account. Apparently there’s a balance unpaid for this domain for CF services but as mentioned before we purchased this domain several months ago so it was not me that has the balance.

However, I’m willing to pay this balance just so we can get the domain working here. I even upgraded to the business plan for signagedotcom.com just to be able to chat with a team member here but that didn’t work as live chat was still disabled.

My ticket #01376208

Thanks for the help. I hope this will get sorted out today as we have to connect our domain to our shopify site.

I forgot to upload the screenshot of the error. Please see below: