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Cloudflare DNS

Fast, resilient and easy-to-manage DNS service
Available on all plans

Leverage Cloudflare’s global Anycast network to deliver excellent performance and reliability to your domain while also protecting your business from DDoS attacks and route leaks and hijacking.

Cloudflare authoritative DNS provides CNAME flattening support, free DNSSEC, and several other features and setups to meet your needs.


​​ Features

FeatureAdditional featuresFreeProBusinessEnterprise

CNAME Flattening

YesYesYesYes

Can customize

NoYesYesYes

Custom nameservers

NoNoYesYes

DNS Analytics

YesYesYesYes

Historical time

6 hours24 hours7 days30 days

DNS Firewall

NoNoNoPaid add-on

DNSSEC

YesYesYesYes

Full zone setup

YesYesYesYes

Partial zone setup

NoNoYesYes

DNS record comments

YesYesYesYes

Character limit

50250250250

Comments per record

1111

DNS record tags

NoYesYesYes

Name character limit
(everything before the colon)

N/A323232

Value character limit
(everything after the colon)

N/A100100100

Tags per record

N/A202020

Subdomain zone setup

NoNoNoYes

DNS Zone Transfers

NoNoNoPaid add-on