Instructions by DNS provider

Your domain's records are added where its DNS servers (NS) point — at the registrar, at the hosting or at a separate DNS service. The connection wizard detects the provider itself and on the "Records" step shows instructions for its panel; the "More, with screenshots" link leads to the provider page below — straight to the right section.

All pages have the same sections: where to edit records, ownership record, subdomain, root domain, certificate record, how long to wait, if a site already opens at the address, email, disconnecting (Cloudflare also has proxy). The general order — Custom domain.

How to find out where the domain's records are managed#

• The easiest — the wizard: on the first step it says "Your domain is managed at …".
• Yourself: look up the domain's DNS servers in the registrar account ("DNS servers", "Nameservers") or with any online "NS records" lookup. Compare with the "DNS servers" column of the table above.
• If the domain was bought at one company and the DNS servers belong to another (for example bought at GoDaddy, servers *.ns.cloudflare.com), add the records at the second one. Records at the registrar have no effect in that case.

Your provider is not listed#

The general order is the same in any panel:

1. Find the "DNS", "DNS records", "Zone editor", "Zone Editor", "Advanced DNS" or "Zone management" section.
2. "Add record" → choose the type (CNAME, TXT, ALIAS/ANAME) — as in the wizard.
3. Name: most often only the left part (www), sometimes the full name or the full name with a dot at the end. Check after saving: a record www.example.com.example.com means the panel appended the domain itself.
4. Value — via the "Copy" button in the wizard. TTL — default.
5. Save (some panels also need "Apply" or "Upload zone") and go back to the wizard — it checks the record and tells you if something is wrong.

If the provider is popular and has no guide, tell us its name — we will add it. In any case the wizard shows the records with exact values and checks them on the server.

Related pages#

• Custom domain — the three connection steps
• Domain connection errors — what each wizard message means
• Root domain and www — if the provider has no ALIAS