Glossary

Accounts group one or more members together with specific roles or permissions. Accounts can be associated with any number of domains.

The final step in the TCP three-way handshake, confirming the establishment of a connection.

A DNS zone that is active on Cloudflare requires changing its nameservers to Cloudflare's for management.

A data structure enabling customers with BYOIP prefixes or account-level static IPs to specify which IP addresses should be mapped to DNS records when they are proxied through Cloudflare.

A bot which scrapes content from websites in support of an AI model, including by scraping content for indexing, retrieval augmented generation, or training.

An AI model is a trained system that processes input data to generate predictions, decisions, or outputs based on patterns it has learned.

A Durable Object alarm is a mechanism that allows you to schedule the Durable Object to be woken up at a time in the future.

An allowlist is a list of items (usually websites, IP addresses, email addresses, etc.) that are permitted to access a system.

Anycast is a network addressing and routing method in which incoming requests can be routed to a variety of different locations. Anycast typically routes incoming traffic to the nearest data center with the capacity to process the request efficiently.

Apex domain is used to refer to a domain that does not contain a subdomain part, such as example.com (without www.). It is also known as "root domain" or "naked domain".

Also known as an API request. An API call is a message sent to a server asking an API to provide a service or information.

The API endpoint is the location where API calls or requests are fulfilled. API Shield defines endpoints as a host, method, and path tuple.