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<p>I wanted to write this blog post explaining how it is possible to use <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fazure.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fservices%2Ftraffic-manager%2F&amp;t=YmJkOTE3ZGI2NDIwNTAwMzgyNzE3NDhlZmM0ZGVkYzhlMjYzOGQwMSxpUVp5QjBGUw%3D%3D">Azure Traffic Manager </a>with your apex domain name. Ive googled solutions for this and havent found any until now. </p>
<p>Azure Traffic Manager currently does not support Apex or “Root” “@” domain names. Meaning, you cannot use it with <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com&amp;t=YWUyYWEyOTQzOGRlYTMzMWEyZWEzOGY5YmJkY2ViMGE5MWNhYTNmMCxpUVp5QjBGUw%3D%3D">https://example.com</a>. This is because Traffic Manager provides you with a CNAME “wwwexamplecom.trafficmanager.net” and <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Frfc%2Frfc1035.txt&amp;t=MzUwNjUwOWU1NjkzOGI2NWM4ZjY0NjkyNGY4Njg4ZDlmYWFlMWUwYSxpUVp5QjBGUw%3D%3D">DNS RFCs</a> forbid the use of a CNAME record as the domain apex record.</p>
<p>This is where Cloudflare comes in.</p>
<p>Cloudflare supports a feature called <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudflare.com%2Fintroducing-cname-flattening-rfc-compliant-cnames-at-a-domains-root%2F&amp;t=MjA5YWZiODkwMDE5YzAzY2QyMzgyOWI1YTNmMmMxMmNkYjhkNDFkNyxpUVp5QjBGUw%3D%3D">CNAME Flattening</a> that they have developed in-house for their DNS servers. You can use Cloudflare to host your domain for free and you arent required to use their caching/proxying service.</p>
<p>After creating a Cloudflare account and adding your domain, you can use a CNAME record as your domain apex “@”. Behind the scenes, Cloudflare is translating “wwwexamplecom.trafficmanager.net” to an IP and returning the IP when “example.com” is queried.</p>
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<p>I hope this helps anyone looking to use Azure Traffic Manager.</p>
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