How to protect your Cloudflare domains while you are alive
There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Cloudflare account. While the account holder is alive, Cloudflare allows transferring the account and transferring the domain to another registrant.
Cloudflare decides requests about Cloudflare domains after a death case by case, so nothing in its terms promises a survivor anything; what the account holder sets up in advance is what holds. There is no way to name a beneficiary or successor on a Cloudflare account. While the account holder is alive, Cloudflare allows transferring the account and transferring the domain to another registrant.
How to protect your Cloudflare domains
- •In the dashboard, go to Manage Account > Members > Invite Members and enter the person's email.
- •Assign the Super Administrator - All Privileges role.
- •The invitee accepts by email and needs a verified email address; Enterprise accounts can use Direct Add instead.
- •Keep more than one Super Administrator, as Cloudflare recommends, so management of the domains does not depend on one person.
Naming who acts after a death
What Cloudflare's terms say about sharing and transfers4
- Workspace roles and admin access
The "Super Administrator - All Privileges" role can edit any Cloudflare setting, make purchases, update billing, manage members and create account-owned API tokens, and can revoke the access of other Super Administrators.3
Members are invited from Manage Account > Members > Invite Members; the invitee receives an email to accept and needs a verified email address, and Enterprise accounts can use Direct Add to skip the email confirmation.3
Cloudflare recommends having more than one Super Administrator, so that if one cannot sign in there is another who can manage the domains.1
Account API tokens act as service principals with their own permissions, so an integration keeps working after the user who configured it has left; creating one needs Super Administrator permission, and user tokens act on behalf of one user.4
A few products, Registrar among them, do not yet support account API tokens, and the legacy Global API Key is tied to the individual user's login.4
- Transferring the account or registration
A Registrar domain moves between Cloudflare accounts when the source account submits a move request and the gaining account accepts within five days, or the request auto-cancels; the registration is then transfer-locked for 30 days and the target account renews it.5
The domain must have been registered more than 10 days earlier, with the registrant email verified, DNSSEC off, no pending Change of Registrant, no administrative or zone lock, and no pendingDelete, redemptionPeriod or pendingTransfer status.5
A domain transfers out to another registrar once it is unlocked and its authorization (EPP) code is given to the receiving registrar; Cloudflare auto-approves on the fifth day, and ICANN blocks a transfer within 60 days of registration, a transfer or a registrant change.6
Changing the registrant's name, organization or email sends a Change of Registrant approval to the current registrant's address, which auto-cancels after seven days; an email change also needs approval from the new address.7
An approved registrant change applies a 60-day transfer lock unless the current registrant selects "Do not apply 60 day transfer lock" before accepting; the new registrant's approval page has no such option. A further contact change during the lock extends it to 60 days from that update.7
The registrant authorizes Cloudflare to act as Designated Agent under the ICANN Transfer Policy to approve a Change of Registrant.2
- Expiry and activity requirements
ICANN requires the registrant email on a Cloudflare Registrar domain to be verified. If it is unverified or the link expires, the domain is put on hold with parking nameservers and the site stops resolving until verification completes.8
- Exporting and backing up data
A domain ownership certificate is a PDF certifying Cloudflare is registrar of record and listing the creation and expiry dates, the contacts and the nameservers, offered as proof of ownership to a bank, marketplace or legal entity.9
Sources9
- 1.Change Super Administrator
- 2.Domain Registration Agreement, effective August 20, 2026
- 3.Roles (Super Administrator and other account roles)
- 4.Account-owned API tokens
- 5.Registrar inter-account transfer
- 6.Transfer a domain out from Cloudflare
- 7.Registrant contact updates
- 8.Registrar FAQ
- 9.Domain ownership certificate
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
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Data sourced from Cloudflare primary sources (15 pages reviewed). How we research.
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