transferring active domain to cf
Hi folks, my domain and lives in porkbun that will expire in 2026, im thinking of moving to cf because i plan to use cf's email routing and email routing needs full setup.
I wanted to know if there is a charge or something i need to pay for this now? or should i pay only for renewing later when it expires in 2026? where can i know more about this?
edit: (i also host my email in porkbun)
one more question: i plan to use astro with cf. and i have an idea of sending the form submissions to my email using email worker and custom addresses, say for example, sending from
forms@yourdomain.com to name@yourdomain.com is it possible to leverage such a flow with using the current cloudflare's available products?
Thanks in advance!6 Replies
im thinking of moving to cf because i plan to use cf's email routing and email routing needs full setup."Full" just means using CF's Nameservers/DNS btw, you can have a full setup without cf registrar
I wanted to know if there is a charge or something i need to pay for this now? or should i pay only for renewing later when it expires in 2026? where can i know more about this?ICANN says all domains must be extended by a year upon transferring, so you always pay at least one year's renewal
one more question: i plan to use astro with cf. and i have an idea of sending the form submissions to my email using email worker and custom addresses, say for example, sending from forms@yourdomain.com to name@yourdomain.com is it possible to leverage such a flow with using the current cloudflare's available products?Sure, with Pages Functions or Workers. You'd have to find some external email service with an http api like Postmark/resend to send from a worker thouhg
perfect! thanks for clearing my doubt. :cloudflare: ❤️
Well you can send an email from your email address to also-your-email-address with https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/email-workers/send-email-workers/
which for a contact form and those requirements, should be sufficient
Cloudflare Docs
Send emails from Workers · Cloudflare Email Routing docs
You can send an email about your Worker’s activity from your Worker to an email address verified on Email Routing. This is useful for when you want to …
that's a good point if you just need to send to yourself and not to them, wonder if that would work in Pages w/ Astro if you used the wrangler.toml 🤔
I think now that Pages has wrangler.toml, email send binding should work. But I've not tried it.
oh cool! i will try that. i want to collect all my website form submissions to my email