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Edit: the dns record export/import functionality is hidden behind the advance search drop down for some reason. Ignore this entire comment. From reading the l

Edit: the dns record export/import functionality is hidden behind the advance search drop down for some reason. Ignore this entire comment. From reading the linked helpdoc, apparently your entire domain can get removed from cloudflare if your register stops reporting cloudflare's servers for the ns records. The mere idea of having to re-enter all hundred or so of our dns records using cloudflares 1.2 second delay at every step of the way add dns record interface because namecheap bugged out for a few seconds is horrifying. There is no way to export all of these, there is no way to import or mass add and i don't think they can lean on the api to save them here. Dns records are data, dns records are sometimes important unbacked up customer data. Cloudflare does not offer a way for customers to back this data up, nor a way to restore or recover from a backup but it acts very callous with this data, deleting it in automated systems based on data from 3rd party providers. Not a good look.

Hello71 7y ago
I googled "cloudflare dns import" and "cloudflare dns export" and the first result both times was an apparently official support article giving step-by-step instructions on how to do so. I myself have used this function about six years ago, so this is not new or untested functionality.
- MrStonedOne 7y ago
  Never clicked that because i have no reason to look for a dns export/import button in the advance search gui... hmm. good to know about, not sure why they put it there.
donmcronald 7y ago
You can export a zone file and the auto deletion takes days. You’re site would be offline before the zone gets deleted. I don’t like it a ton, but it’s not even close to what you’re saying.
- MrStonedOne 7y ago
  I only have the help article to go on and the fact that their export functionality is for some reason hidden in the advance search drop down? as i've just found out... Anywho, the help article does not state it it "takes days", so it does not have to "take days". Otherwise known as listening to the documentation not the observed behavior. Programming 101 here.

Hello71 7y ago

I googled "cloudflare dns import" and "cloudflare dns export" and the first result both times was an apparently official support article giving step-by-step instructions on how to do so. I myself have used this function about six years ago, so this is not new or untested functionality.

MrStonedOne 7y ago
Never clicked that because i have no reason to look for a dns export/import button in the advance search gui... hmm. good to know about, not sure why they put it there.

donmcronald 7y ago

You can export a zone file and the auto deletion takes days. You’re site would be offline before the zone gets deleted. I don’t like it a ton, but it’s not even close to what you’re saying.

MrStonedOne 7y ago
I only have the help article to go on and the fact that their export functionality is for some reason hidden in the advance search drop down? as i've just found out... Anywho, the help article does not state it it "takes days", so it does not have to "take days". Otherwise known as listening to the documentation not the observed behavior. Programming 101 here.