What does it mean to delegate to Cloudflare nameservers?

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What does it mean to delegate to Cloudflare nameservers?
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Delegating to Cloudflare nameservers means changing your domain's authoritative nameservers at your domain registrar to point to Cloudflare's servers. This allows Cloudflare to manage the DNS records for your domain, providing benefits like DDoS protection, caching, and performance enhancements. It essentially shifts the responsibility of resolving your domain's address from your host's DNS to Cloudflare's.