After purchasing a domain, you need to determine where you’re going to direct traffic and manage your DNS Zone. In this video, I set up a new domain on Cloudflare and obtain the Name Server records I need to set at my Domain Registrar. This makes Cloudflare my DNS Zone, so I can manage all my DNS records with Cloudflare moving forward.
You might decide to use any type of service for managing your DNS Zone, like a Domain Registrar, hosting company, DNS hosting provider, or CDN.
After you’ve followed the Cloudflare onboarding process in the video, you’re ready to learn How to Configure DNS Records – Part 4 of Setting up a New Domain with WordPress:
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Transcript:
Hey everyone! This is Brandon from Gaucho Plugins, the development team behind Domain Mapping System.
In the last video, I configured my new domain name to point all traffic to Cloudflare using Name Server Records.
In this video, I’ll show you how to set up Cloudflare and obtain the Name Server records you’ll need to set at your Domain Registrar.
But first, why am I using Cloudflare to manage my DNS?
While I could manage DNS Records with my Domain Registrar, my hosting company, a DNS hosting provider, or any other Content Delivery Network, I like Cloudflare’s CDN because it’s free and easy to set up.
When using a CDN, you get a lot of great speed and security enhancements for your website.
CDN’s distribute your website traffic to servers across the world so that site visitors use the server nearest their location to visit a cached version of your site.
CDN’s also do a great job at preventing common security threats, like DDoS attacks.
Learn more about CDN’s in the description below.
I use CDN for all my WordPress projects.
Keep in mind, you might manage your DNS Records anywhere I mentioned earlier – so using Cloudflare is totally optional.
So, back to our goal – getting those Name Server records.
Here’s the Cloudflare Dashboard, where I’m setting up my new domain.
I’m going to paste in my new domain name, and I’ll choose their free plan to get started.
Cloudflare automatically scans for existing DNS Records on the domain, which were currently provided by Namecheap’s default configuration, as I mentioned in the last video.
My first goal is getting the Name Server Records to set up the domain properly, which means I don’t have to make any changes at this point, so I’ll just hit continue.
Cloudflare provides the Name Servers I need with an easy “click to copy” button.
Set those Name Server records with your Domain Registrar, like we covered in the last video, and you’re ready to start using Cloudflare!
In the next video, I’ll cover how to properly configure DNS Records with Cloudflare in order to get your domain set up properly.
