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A step-by-step guide to transferring domains to Cloudflare

What's this blog post about?

The text provides a comprehensive checklist for transferring domains to Cloudflare Registrar. It covers eligibility requirements, ensuring compatibility with nameservers and TLDs, managing premium domains and internationalized domain names (IDNs), meeting ICANN's rules regarding transfers and registrant information updates, obtaining necessary credentials from current registrars, unlocking domains for transfer, and adding a payment method to Cloudflare. The process of initiating and confirming the transfer is also detailed, including steps like requesting an authorization code, inputting it into Cloudflare's dashboard, confirming contact information, approving transfers with both registrars, monitoring the transfer status in the Cloudflare dashboard, testing websites and emails after the transfer, and potential future project ideas for the transferred domain.

Company
Cloudflare

Date published
June 23, 2023

Author(s)
Ricky Robinett

Word count
1159

Language
English

Hacker News points
15


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