Edge Certificate issued without my Authorization

Yes, Cloudflare will issue certificates for itself (which since your DNS points to them is correct), and then alert you through its certificate transparency monitoring service that a new certificate has been issued, without telling you that it's one that they asked for themselves. Definitely a common source of confusion; you're not the first person to be asking about it here:

Would certainly be nice if Cloudflare made things clearer.

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