I recently registered a new domain with CloudFlare. At the time, I didn't know that CloudFlare forced its free users to use their nameservers. I can't transfer my domain to a different registrar because of the 60-day restriction.
There are a number of things that I'd like to do, but I'm not sure what is and isn't possible. Chief among these is to self-host a DNS server. I'm also using DigitalOcean to host some services, and I'd like to point my domain to their nameservers if I don't end up creating my own DNS server.
Complicating all this, while CloudFlare doesn't allow me to change nameservers, I am able to add
NS
NS
records to my domain. I'm not really sure what this does, and how it is different from the nameservers CloudFlare has my domain locked into.