Add a site

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗.

2. Select Add a domain.

3. Enter your website’s apex domain (‘example.com’), choose how you would like to add your DNS records, and select Continue.

   Note

   If Cloudflare is unable to identify your domain as a registered domain, make sure you are using an existing top-level domain ↗ (.com, .net, .biz, or others).

   Additionally, Cloudflare requires your apex domain to be one level below a valid TLD defined in the Public Suffix List (PSL) ↗.

4. Select a plan ↗.

5. Make sure we have all of your DNS records.

   When you add a new site to Cloudflare, Cloudflare automatically scans for common records and adds them to the DNS zone. The records show up under the respective zone DNS > Records page.

   
   

   1. Since this scan is not guaranteed to find all existing DNS records, you need to review your records, paying special attention to the following record types:

      • Zone apex records (example.com)
      • Subdomain records (www.example.com or blog.example.com)
      • Email records

      Note

      If you activate your domain on Cloudflare without setting up the correct DNS records for your domain and subdomain, your visitors may experience DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN errors.

   2. If you find any missing records, manually add those records.

   3. Depending on your site setup, you may want to adjust the proxy status for certain A, AAAA, or CNAME records.

   4. Select Continue.