[tomklein]

iirc, custom DNS at CF refers to using your own subdomains as name servers for CF instead of the regular *.ns.cloudflare.com. Basically a form of whitelabelling.

Specifying 3rd party name servers as your domain’s name server was (still is?) not possible with Cloudflare Registrar.

(Disclaimer: I work there)

[lpgauth]

It’s pretty crazy that you can’t setup a custom 3rd party name server. I can’t even transfer my domain from one Cloudflare account to another without transferring my domain to another registrar…

[1una]

That's the strategy. They offer "at-cost pricing", but force you to use their own name server.

[account42]

Kinda feels like restrictions on what you can submit to the registry (NS and glue records) should be something ICANN forbids.

[rekoil]

Thank you for this information, I was planning to move my domains.google domains to Cloudflare, but now I think I won't do that. I'll still use Cloudflare, but the inability to use my own NS is a dealbreaker for using Cloudflare as a registrar in my opinion.

[qodeninja]

exactly. just as I was considering moving to CF this changed my entire mind.