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I had a CPanel account with a subdomain as the main domain (like devel.mydomain.com). I tried to add the main domain in CPanel but it failed because the devel.mydomain.com DNS entries were in a mydomain.com zone file.
After trying a few things I terminated the original CPanel account and tried to create it again. I’ve checked that it isn’t in /var/named or /var/named/cache and I now get this error message:
(XID xf7s4p) “nobody” already controls the domain name…