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Create a zone

  1. In the Control panel, on the top menu, click Products and select DNS hosting.

  2. Click Add zone.

  3. Enter the DNS zone name—the domain name with a dot, for example, example.com.. You can only add second-level domains.

  4. If you do not need to activate the zone immediately, uncheck the Activate DNS zone checkbox. When a zone is deactivated, the zone and its resource records are not served from NS servers. Services that use this zone will be unavailable. Activate the zone at any time.

  5. Click Add.

    NS and SOA records with default values will be automatically created in the zone and cannot be edited:

    • NS — a.ns.srv.cr., b.ns.srv.cr., c.ns.srv.cr., d.ns.srv.cr.
    • SOA — a.ns.srv.cr. dns.cloudflare.com. <zone_serial_number> 10000 2400 604800 1800, where <zone_serial_number> is the zone serial number which changes when the zone is updated and signals to caching servers that the records need to be re-cached.

    After creating a zone, you can add resource records. To start serving records in the zone to the DNS system, you must delegate the domain.

    If on step 4 you cleared the Activate DNS Zone checkbox, the zone will be created with the DEACTIVATED status and a disabled SOA record; records in the zone will not be served to the DNS system. You can activate the zone at any time.