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Martin wrote:Question:
Should I register the pointing domain in Cloudflare too?

This is not really necessary. You don't technically have any "traffic" on the redirected domain, and Cloudflare would not provide any benefit. As long as your existing redirect already works, all traffic will be directed to the cloudflare-managed domain anyway.

If you want to get into detail, there would be two immensely TINY benefits by adding the pointing domain to Cloudflare:

1. If you set up the the redirect in Cloudflare "page rules", the redirect itself may be slightly faster since the rule would execute from one of Cloudflare's 100's of POP servers in closer geographical location to the request. We are likely speaking milliseconds difference.
2. From a paranoid-security perspective, in theory one could argue that a hacker can get the server IP of your pointing domain, which is likely the same as your main domain. That would not be possible if the domain was routed through Cloudflare. However, it is not really a "threat" realistically speaking just because someone knows the IP of the server.