My site is down because of "Awaiting Netlify DNS"

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Hi @backadan,

Thanks for reaching out!

You’re not currently using the Netlify name servers mentioned here.

dig backa.com.au NS +trace | tail -n 6
;; Received 595 bytes from 65.22.198.1#53(s.au) in 225 ms

backa.com.au.		86400	IN	NS	alex.ns.cloudflare.com.
backa.com.au.		86400	IN	NS	jill.ns.cloudflare.com.
;; Received 96 bytes from 2a06:98c1:50::ac40:207a#53(jill.ns.cloudflare.com) in 37 ms

You’re instead using Cloudflare name servers. You’ll want to configure the Netlify name servers mention on the DNS Zone page previously linked.

Additionally, as @nathanmartin mentioned, you can check out the other thread where a Netlify engineer has commented here.