Connect your registrar and we keep your nameservers pointed at your site

If your domain is registered somewhere else, pointing it at a site you host with us normally means copying two nameservers into your registrar's panel — and doing it again whenever the site's DNS moves. Connect the registrar once and we do it for you.

Registrars you can connect

GoDaddy, Namecheap, Porkbun, Name.com, Gandi, Spaceship, NameSilo, Hostinger and OVHcloud. Each has its own article with the exact steps for creating the key.

Domains elsewhere still work: every domain's page shows the two nameservers to set and the steps for its registrar, with a Check again button that reads public DNS. Cloudflare Registrar is the one registrar that never lets a domain leave Cloudflare's nameservers, so for those we serve your site from your Cloudflare account instead.

Connect one

1. Open Integrations in your dashboard and choose Connect an account.
2. Under Where your domains are registered, pick your registrar.
3. Paste the key you created at the registrar and press Connect account.

You can connect more than one. Each domain is updated through the account that actually holds it — we check the account before writing anything.

What happens next

• Within the hour we import the domains in the account. They appear under **Domains → Linked

registrars**, with each domain's expiry and whether it points where its site needs.

• When you add a site to one of those domains, we set its nameservers for you.
• When something on our side changes which nameservers a site needs — you switch CDN,

change DNS provider, move the site, change plan or rename the domain — we update the registrar again, automatically.

• If you ever point a domain somewhere else yourself, we do not overwrite your choice. The

domain shows as not pointing at its site, and you can press Update nameservers now on the domain's page whenever you want us to put it back.

Doing it now

On any domain with a site, Domains → the domain → Update nameservers now re-reads where the site's DNS is served from and sets it at the registrar straight away. The page shows what the last update did and why it ran.

What the key lets us do — and what it never does

We use it for exactly two things: listing the domains in the account, and changing a domain's nameservers so it points at the site you host with us. We never transfer, renew, unlock or delete a domain, and we never change its contacts. Those operations are refused in our code for every registrar connection, not merely unused.

The key is stored encrypted in our secrets vault, never in our database, and you can disconnect it at any time from Integrations — disconnecting deletes the stored key.