I work for a municipal government in Quebec, so we have a domain name like this: ville..qc.ca (i.e.: ville.ddo.qc.ca, ville.pointe-claire.qc.ca, etc.) Because of this weird domain name format, Cloudflare detects it as being a subdomain and only allows me to add .qc.ca. This isn't possible, as that isn't our domain. Has anyone had a similar type of issue?

This happens because the city domain isn't on the Public Suffix List: Aside from getting it added there, the only other way is to have an Enterprise organisation account, which will then be able to add subdomains: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/zone-setups/subdomain-setup/

from what a sales rep told me, it sounds like an enterprise account is way out of our budget

I understand, unfortunately that's the only way to add a subdomain if the parent isn't on the PSL

I have no connection at all to this issue... but curious to learn more. Both

.ca

and

.qc.ca

are in the PSL. Perhaps I don't understand how the PSL works... but isn't that exactly equivalent to a

.com

domain?

yes, but in our case the suffix isn't just .qc.ca, it's

<city>.qc.ca

and our fqdn is

ville.<city>.qc.ca

That doesn't make it any clearer to me. 🙂 Because with a .com address it is common to have something like "sub.domain.com"

The domain is

ville.<city>.qc.ca

, not

<city>.qc.ca

Ah ok. I guess I'm not used to how many layers there can be in government urls. 🙂