Cloudflare incident: Unable to register certain domains

Affected components

• Registrar

1. resolvedSep 21, 2026, 09:49 UTC

   This incident has been resolved.

2. identifiedSep 21, 2026, 09:37 UTC

   Cloudflare is aware of an issue affecting the registration of the following top-level domains (TLDs): "audio", "baby", "build", "cam", "ceo", "christmas", "college", "dealer", "diet", "fans", "flowers", "fm", "game", "guitars", "help", "hosting", "icu", "inc", "lol", "mom", "monster", "pics", "protection", "rent", "security", "storage", "theatre", "xyz"

What APIStatus.watch saw

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