When you have a domain using a full setup, Cloudflare provides the authoritative nameservers for your domain.

As explained in the article about DNS server types External link icon Open external link, the authoritative nameserver is the last stop in the query, the server that returns the IP address for the requested domain. NameserverĪlthough the resolution of a DNS query involves a number of different servers, in this documentation nameserver usually refers to the Cloudflare authoritative nameservers. The exact properties and behaviors of your zone depend on its setup option. You can read more about this in the specific Learning Center article External link icon Open external link.įor the purpose of this documentation, keep in mind that each site added to a Cloudflare account is listed in the account home page as a zone. ZoneĭNS zone is an administrative concept used for delegating control over DNS settings for different domains, subdomains or a set of both. As explained in our Learning Center External link icon Open external link, a registrar handles the reservation of domain names as well as the assignment of IP addresses for those domains.Ĭloudflare offers at-cost domain registration through Cloudflare Registrar.

This is achieved by using a service called registrar. Registrarīefore you can start using the Cloudflare DNS service you must first have a domain. Every time you access a website from your web browser, a DNS query takes place and the domain name is mapped to the actual IP address where the website is hosted. DomainĪlso known as domain name, it is the string of text that identifies a specific website, such as or. For more concepts and broader descriptions, check out the Cloudflare Learning Center External link icon Open external link. This page defines and articulates key concepts that are relevant to the Cloudflare DNS service and are used in this documentation.

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