Resolution Issues for .al Domains

lowCloudflareDNSJul 3, 2026 16:48Duration: 15h 34m

dnsauthentication

DNS FailureAuthentication Issue

Summary

This incident has been resolved.

Impact

minor

Timeline

Jul 3, 2026 16:48

[identified] We are observing issues with authoritative resolution for the .al TLD because of DNSSEC issues at the TLD.

via statuspage

+0m

Jul 3, 2026 16:48

[identified] We are observing issues with authoritative resolution for the .AL TLD because of DNSSEC issues at the TLD.

via statuspage

+14m

Jul 3, 2026 17:02

[identified] Cloudflare is temporarily disabling DNSSEC validation for .AL domains on 1.1.1.1 resolver (as per RFC 7646) in order to allow .AL names to continue to resolve. DNSSEC validation will be re-enabled when the signing problems are known to have been resolved. See RFC 7646 for more details: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7646

via statuspage

+23m

Jul 3, 2026 17:25

[monitoring] A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

via statuspage

+14h 47m

Jul 4, 2026 08:12

[monitoring] We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

via statuspage

+10m

Jul 4, 2026 08:22

[resolved] This incident has been resolved.

via statuspage

Lessons Learned

⚠Cloudflare has experienced 252 incidents in the past year. This frequency suggests systemic reliability challenges that may warrant additional monitoring.

📊Incidents related to dns, authentication have occurred 163 times across all providers in the past year. This is one of the most common failure categories in cloud infrastructure.

💡This incident is categorized as: DNS Failure, Authentication Issue. Consider implementing preventive measures specific to this failure category.