I thought I would be able to migrate from Cloudflare

Hi!

Im trying to move my tech stack from american companies to europeen alternatives. DeSEC was one alternative that seemed to fit my need, and privacy focues as well! The privacy thing has been one of my prioritizes elements latelty.

But please help me understand, how tf to i add domains? I barely got the DDNS to work :slight_smile:

Can you be more specific as to what exactly you are having trouble with? Keep in mind that people reading this have no idea about what you are doing or your level of expertise unless you let us know.

In general when you are logged in to your deSEC account in the “DOMAIN MANAGEMENT” tab you should see a round + button on the upper right hand side above the list of domains. Use it to add domains (up to the limit for your account). (Alternatively you can also use the API of course.)

Once deSEC has the zone you can go to your domain registrar to change the NS to deSEC (ns1.desec.io, ns2.desec.org) and then you’ll need to get them to set the DS records in the parent domain as well to complete the DNSSEC chain of trust.

HTH
fiwswe

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Hi tanks for your reply.

Im having trouble with adding domains… I have a few at cloudflare, but i cannot add more with that round + button you mention. I have reach the 1/1 limit. Maybe need to reach out to support?

My leven of expertise seems to be low with desec infrastructure.

Either that or create a second account. Though getting official permission from support would be best.

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I had to contact support to increase the limit in order to add additional domains. I only found that by searching on this forum where I found an old post that mentioned it. I did not see it documented anywhere on their website. I don’t know why they only allow one domain by default and do not seem to have any official documentation about adding more. It definitely was not the best first impression, but everything has worked great since.

They do make the limits pretty clear when you click on the + sign. Maybe the UI is different for new accounts? It would surprise me though. I registered in a time where the limit was 10 by default, and asked support to be granted a limit of 30. They reacted super quick and increased it for me, and as a little thank you, I left a donation equal to my new limit.