Move your domain from one Cloudflare Account to Another Cloudflare account in 3-simple steps

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      Okay, you want to move your domain from one cloudflare account to another.

      My scenario:

      • domain registered (registrar) with third-party (not cloudflare, precisely, register.com.np)
      • Have onboarded on Siddhibuddhipujapasal's cloudflare's account.
      • Want to move to ShivaGyawali's Cloudflare account

      Voila, here are the three stpes:

      (okay, before I share you steps, let's fix on terminologies: siddhi CF is our old CF where our domain is registered, SG CF is where we want to move (new account) to. Register.com.np is our registrar (i know it's redundant information, mais on s'en fout ;) )

      1. Log into your new (SG CF) CF account, and Add your domain as if it is adding new domain.
      2. Log into your Registrar (register.com.np), and update your Nameservers from your new CF account.
      3. wait, until nameserver changes take effect and DNS propagates.

      Long story...., once upon a time,

      1. Log into your SG CF (new), and add domain:

      Add domain
      Add domain

      I assume, if you want to move, definitely, you have already registered domain nah?

      Enter your domain name, eg: siddhibuddhipujapasal.com.np

      Your domain name
      your domain name.

      Now, review DNS (if it imports/shows), or choose to set up DNS later:

      review your dns
      Review your dns

      It will ask you to update your nameservers, Note down:

      your nameservers are shown
      Your nameservers are shown, note down.

      Now, it's time to point your domain to this new name servers, boom, let's goooo....

      2. Log into your Domain Registrar

      and, click on Edit DNS (you should be able to find, anyway)

      This might look different, depending on your registrar

      Edit DNS
      Edit DNS

      Replace your current nameserver with your new Cloudlfare's nameserver:

      replace nameserver
      replace nameserver

      After you updated nameservers on your registrar, let's inform cloudflare:

      I updated my nameservers
      I Updated my Nameservers

      Done for step 2, let's go to step 3.

      1. wait, until your DNS upate takes effect and propagates.

      Now, around after 24-48 hours, check your new CF dashboard, to see the status:

      Check the status on new account
      Check domain status on new CF account.

      Cool, it shows Active (this means? voilaaaa, we have moved our domain to this new account.)

      Still in doubt?

      okay, let's verify by checking domain on our old account:

      status moved
      status moved

      See, it shows moved.

      Great, you just moved your domain to new cloudflare account from another one.

      quoi? ahh, invalid nameservers?

      yes, if Cloudflare couldn't verify your domain that whether it is pointing to cloudflare, then it will show invalid nameservers. In my case, this domain doesn't exist, I just put it randomly to show you, this siddhibuddhipujapasall has double ll.

      Anyway, you know why I moved this domain to my personal account?

      To host it from my Raspberry PI using Cloudflare Tunnel.

      what is Cloudflare tunnel? okay, know here: