Causes

  • The Cloudflare domain was recently activated and there is a delay propagating the domain’s settings to the Cloudflare edge network
  • The Cloudflare domain was created via a Cloudflare partner (e.g., a hosting provider) and the provider’s DNS failed

Fixes

Step 1

Contact Cloudflare Support with the following details:

  • Your domain name
  • A screenshot of the 1018 error including the RayID mentioned in the error message
  • The time and timezone the 1018 error occurred