DNS records

DNS records contain information about your domain and are used to make your website or application available to visitors and other web services.

For background about different types of DNS records, refer to the Learning Center ↗.

DNS records quota

There is a limit to the number of records you can create on a single zone.

• Free zones created before 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC: 1,000
• Free zones created on or after 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC: 200
• Pro: 3,500
• Business: 3,500
• Enterprise: 3,500

For more DNS records

If you are an Enterprise customer and require more DNS records, contact your account team. Cloudflare can support millions of DNS records on a single zone.

Resources

How to

• Manage DNS records
• Create zone apex record
• Create subdomain records
• Set up email records
• Import and export records
• Batch record changes
• Dynamically update DNS records
• Round-robin DNS
• Delegate subdomains

Reference

• Proxy status
• DNS record types
• Time to Live (TTL)
• Record attributes
• Vendor-specific DNS records
• Wildcard DNS records

Troubleshooting

• Records with the same name
• Exposed IP addresses
• Verify a domain with CNAME
• NS records already exist

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