Cant point dns to a website

[xSenny]

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• Website name: linksxsenny.netlify.app
• The url that I try to make it to the website is https://links.xsenny.dev

When I try to go to this url, I get the website not found error
This is how I pointed the dns

for other websites, it works nice, but for this one, it does not work. what should I do?

[xSenny]

This is the error

[Melvin]

Hi @xSenny,

Thanks for reaching out and welcome to Netlify’s Support Forums!

I’m not showing that the subdomain, links.xsenny.dev has been assigned to the site. You can follow this Netlify doc for assigning custom domains to a production site. I believe this is why you’re seeing the Site Not Found from your second screenshot.

In addition, I see you have a Netlify DNS zone setup for xsenny.dev, however currently, the name servers are pointing to Cloudflare instead of the Netlify name servers mentioned here:

Netlify App

Follow this Support Guide for fixing inactive DNS Zones:

[Support Guide] How to detect and fix inactive Netlify DNS zones

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 What is an “inactive Netlify DNS zone”? First, it would help to define the term “DNS zone”. Quoting wikipedia, it says: A DNS zone is any distinct, contiguous portion of the domain name space in the Domain Name System (DNS) for which administrative responsibility has been delegated to a single manager. To paraphrase, a DNS zone is a collection of all the DNS records for a production domain. When you add production domains to Netlify DNS we c…

Let us know if you have any questions.

[xSenny]

Hi, Melvin, Thanks for your help!