A short practical guide on pointing a Cloudflare-managed domain to Netlify without transferring nameservers. The approach keeps Cloudflare as the DNS provider and only updates the DNS records. The key steps are: add the domain in Netlify's domain management, then in Cloudflare remove conflicting A/AAAA/CNAME records for @ and www, and add two CNAME records (apex pointing to apex-loadbalancer.netlify.com and www pointing to YOUR-SITE.netlify.app), both set to 'DNS only' (gray-cloud). Keeping the proxy off is essential so Netlify can provision its SSL certificate. Cloudflare's CNAME flattening handles the apex record automatically.
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