hermes-skills/skills/devops/cloudflare-dns-and-domains/references/dns-provider-map.md

DNS Management by Domain

Not all domains use Cloudflare DNS. Some use SiteGround, which has no programmatic API access.

SiteGround-Managed Domains

itpropartner.com DNS is managed at SiteGround (nameservers: ns1.siteground.net, ns2.siteground.net).

Implications:

• DNS updates must be done manually through the SiteGround control panel (Germaine's account)
• Cloudflare API will return no results for these domains even with a valid API token
• The CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN in .env has DNS permissions but only applies to Cloudflare-hosted zones

Discovery: Confirmed Jul 10, 2026 — host -t NS itpropartner.com returned SiteGround nameservers. Previous attempts to use Cloudflare API for DNS record management on this domain silently failed.

Cloudflare-Managed Domains (verified)

From zone listing Jul 10, 2026 — 13 zones. Notable:

• germainebrown.com (MXroute for email, Cloudflare for DNS)
• forefrontwireless.com / forefrontwireless.net
• iamgmb.com
• debtrecoveryexperts.com
• apextrackexperience.com
• itpropartner.com ← DNS at SiteGround, NOT Cloudflare despite having a zone entry

DNS Provider Detection Pattern

Always verify nameservers before using the Cloudflare API:

host -t NS <domain>

If nameservers don't include cloudflare.com, the Cloudflare API won't work for DNS record management.