I just came across this article which hints at a reason they want to be in control of DNS:

the disconnected WAN port and I've just disabled DNS so that wifi connected devices can be served from my new router instead)

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* Port 53 UDP is blocked, only ISP DNS resolver works

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I am waiting on Cogent to delegate reverse dns to me before releasing new plans.

Of course, most businesses "solve" this problem by asking me to whitelist them, instead of sorting out their DNS.

load balance between them in web app/dns

Here what CF suggests for unused domains https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/protect-domains-without-email/

IPv9 makes information superhighway more friendly because it has decimal addresses instead of hexadecimal, so that users can remember them more easily, without buying domains and using DNS system that

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3) Point my DNS at VM

The suggestion for Cloudflare as registrar sounds reasonable, but like others I'm not really ready to hand over my DNS to them just yet.

* A DNS graphical interface, this is weird because most users of control panels don't have a DNS daemon running, they probably just uses their registrar panel.

added. If you only use Cloudflare for DNS with orange cloud CDN proxy disabled, you can disable Universal SSL so SSL cert isn't issued. I usually do that via Cloudflare API when onboarding/adding a n

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Can someone explain why Cloudflare requires you to use their DNS if you want them as your domain registrar?

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