How to recover a Domain Zone after being deleted automatically by Cloudflare?
Hello everyone,
I need assistance with restoring a Domain Zone or obtaining a backup of the records from an automatically deleted zone after the domain expired (due to not being renewed on time). Please note that the domain was purchased through a different registrar (as Cloudflare does not support this TLD) and was only using Cloudflare's DNS service.
I require these records to restore the zone and proceed with renewing the domain.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards,
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It should take 7 days for it to go from the "Moved" status to deleted. Otherwise it'd still be in your account. If it's not been another 7 days since it's been deleted, just add back the domain in the same account, skip scanning/auto stuff, and your old config should still be there (then I'd export records just for safety/so you have a backup in the future). If it's been another 7 days since it was Deleted then it's been purged from Cloudflare's systems and is gone: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/reference/domain-status/
Cloudflare Docs
Zone status | Cloudflare DNS docs
Review information on the different statuses that your zone can have after you add your website or application to Cloudflare.
hi @Chaika, many thanks for the information, I was able to add the domain again and then exported the records, (thanks to god the DNS records still there) :dogekek: