Resolution Issues for .AL Domains

Incident Report for Cloudflare

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.

Posted Jul 04, 2026 - 08:22 UTC

Update

We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

Posted Jul 04, 2026 - 08:12 UTC

Monitoring

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

Posted Jul 03, 2026 - 17:25 UTC

Update

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

Posted Jul 03, 2026 - 17:02 UTC

Identified

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

Posted Jul 03, 2026 - 16:48 UTC

This incident affected: Cloudflare Sites and Services (Recursive DNS).