Cam Murphy

Senior Cloud Engineer. I live in Chicago with my girlfriend and our cats. For work I do a little bit of networking, security, and programming.

Why?

The backstory is I originally bought www.cammurphy.com from Google Domains. Then it was transferred to Squarespace in 2023. At first I did not really mind because I was just sitting on the domain, but once I started using it again the features of Squarespace were not the best value for me. Squarespace seems more interested in being a domain registrar for people building and using the Squarespace service. I am more interested in building my own site and hosting it on GitHub Pages. What made more sense to me was using the Cloudflare Registrar, since I am already familiar with Cloudflare’s other services.

Cloudflare Domain and DNS

The first thing I did was point DNS in Squarespace from GitHub directly to Cloudflare. This was so I could have everything flowing through Cloudflare before I started the transfer. I created the DNS record and had my Cloudflare account configured with the domain I was set to transfer. Cloudflare has a nice tool that will create proxied DNS records that point to where your DNS records were already pointing.

Transferring…

The next steps were updating the Name Servers in Squarespace to point to Cloudflare Name Servers, unlocking the domain, and requesting the transfer codes. It took a while for those to be generated and sent over. After those steps were complete, I could complete the transfer.

Takeaways & Cloudflare Services

Both companies had great documentation and made the process pretty easy. I am also happy with the new free services I have access to in my Cloudflare account. For example: now I can get interesting insights into the traffic to my site. Apparently cammurphy.com is most popular in Ireland with 4k requests in the past 7 days. Well… more likely bots based in Ireland.

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