setting up website redirect
i just bought my first website from web.com and i setup some dns records for the email service i use, but now i want to have my website redirect to a different one. it wont work and it just keeps saying "This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in gcmdems.com.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" and wont allow me to go to the website i chose to redirect to even tho i made it a rule
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You'll need a Proxied DNS Record to exist on that hostname for traffic to flow to Cloudflare and be processed by rules/etc. If you have no existing web server/origin, Cloudflare recommends you use
100:: as the target, which is IPv6 discard, ensuring that if the request isn't handled by Cloudflare, it won't flow anywhere else.
If you're trying to create the redirect on the apex (no subdomain) of your site:
Navigate to DNS -> DNS Records and create the following
AAAA @ 100:: Proxied
(Even though this is an IPv6/AAAA record, because it is proxied, Cloudflare will automagically respond with both IPv4/IPv6 (A/AAAA) records on DNS Queries. @ refers to your site's apex, gcmdems.com, and will be shown as such once you save it)
Once you make that change, wait a bit for propagation. This can depend on the DNS Resolver you use.
If you get past NXDOMAIN but get a Cloudflare branded error page, like 522, this means your rule didn't work/wasn't matched.got it!! thank u sm for ur help
Of course, no problem! 
Your redirect is already working on my end, redirects to mxroute
Your redirect is already working on my end, redirects to mxrouteawesome i see it as well
btw your www. version of your site doesn't work on firefox , which is [ www.gcmdems.com ]