How to set up Cloudflare with Google Domains

Learn how to link your domain on Google Domans with Cloudflare!

Time markers
0:00 Setup Cloudflare with Google Domains
0:30 Adding your domain to Cloudflare
0:49 Add Cloudflare's nameservers to Google Domains (Custom name servers)
1:17 Click "switch to these settings" to activate the nameservers change
1:31 Check nameservers in Cloudflare and make sure everything is working!
2:05 Recap

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[simongondeck]

Any questions? Let me know if the comments below 👇

[defyiant]

OMG thanks had the name servers typed in but never clicked switch to these settings. Your video helped me figure out what took weeks to get done because I gave up twice before.

[sebsonic]

Amazing, fast, straightforward, no blabla, god we need more of this, thank's mate .

[twjung]

Thanks that made switching super simple. It was so much easier for me to see a video walk through instead of screen shots and text.

[thespicehoarder]

Thanks for the guide! With Google Domains shutting down I'd much rather switch my DNS to Cloudflare than Square Space. Google's UI is not very intuitive, I would not have been able to switch without your guide. So helpful!!

[rowenarrow]

Great video, thanks for clearing this up.

[beautyindustryelite]

Couldn't figure out why my site wouldn't publish... THE PROXY!!!.... Thank you so much it was just what I needed!!!

[lachourt]

Awesome vid, thanks mate! So simple but would have been totally lost without it

[An.Individual]

Nice video.
I have been wanting to port away from network solutions but was really scared of moving the DNS. This video made me believe.

[l-l]

Thanks for the tut man! I did the nameservers, but totally missed the "switch to these settings" button.

[kingvdarkness]

can I ask why you would want to do this? for security?

[healthsupplysupport]

Thank you Simon for this video. We are using Godaddy hosting and google domain and we just updated the servers name in google to cloudflare servers. now we have an issue that our domain not accessible

[kingvdarkness]

is it better to buy the domain with google or cloudflare if I'm going to be making the website on GCP?

[oskarsrukmans]

Thanks, although I have a question, on "Default name servers" tab I have setup some records for email servers and if I activate "Custom name servers" tab email will stop working as I understand. Not sure how to set custom nameservers for web and still keep nameservers for email

[johnwei]

Thanks for the tutorial and it is helpful. One question here, I also want to use the Gmail Alias email function. If I change the name server, it reminds me that the Alias email function will not work anymore. Any solution to fix that? Thanks.

[skverskk]

Thanks! Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of using Cloudfare vs Google Domains for DNS?

[susiebaka]

i just bought my domain on google, but when i try to scan my DNS records the same way you did it doesnt show anything except the CNAME. what am i suppsoed to do?

[diogos]

I'm using google sites but it only works with www. Any idea on how to make it work without the www?

[louisereneau]

What if we don't use Google domains? We are trying to set up Google Workspace and it says we need to go through this last step?

[AliBaba-nzuq]

Hello I followed your steps and my website is not protected and web browsers are saying it’s unsafe to use