{"id":4255,"date":"2020-11-14T16:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T22:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/?p=4255"},"modified":"2020-11-14T16:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T22:52:47","slug":"migrating-your-nameservers-from-godaddy-to-aws-route-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.iachieved.it\/iachievedit\/migrating-your-nameservers-from-godaddy-to-aws-route-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrating Your Nameservers from GoDaddy to AWS Route 53"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can already hear the rabble shouting, “Why would you use GoDaddy<\/a> as your domain registrar<\/a>?!” A fair question, but sometimes we don’t always get to choose our domain registrar (e.g., we inherited it) and aren’t in a position to change it. But that doesn’t mean GoDaddy has to provide DNS management for your domain.<\/p>\n

In this post I’ll show you how to change your domain’s nameservers from GoDaddy<\/b> to AWS’ Route 53<\/a><\/b>. Reader Beware<\/b>: In this post we are going to change a domain’s nameservers from one provider (GoDaddy) to another (AWS). Note that this is not<\/em> (I repeat, not<\/b>) the same as transferring your DNS entries. I joke about GoDaddy’s repeated warnings that changing “nameservers” is risky, but unless your zone files have been populated in the new environment, you will definitely be in for calamity when your hostnames no longer resolve.<\/p>\n

Getting AWS Route 53 Ready<\/h2>\n

Our first step is to create a hosted zone<\/b> in AWS Route 53. Login in to your AWS account and go to the Route 53 dashboard<\/a> and click Create hosted zone<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Our zone will be for the domain sonorasecurity.com<\/b> and it will be a public hosted zone<\/i>, in that we want public Internet DNS queries for our domain to be resolved. Once you’ve filled in this information, click Create hosted zone<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Once the zone is created you’ll see two DNS entries automatically created, an NS<\/code> entry and an SOA<\/code> entry.<\/p>\n

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We’re interested in the NS<\/code> entry and the fully-qualified domain names listed. In this example there are four<\/i> nameservers listed:<\/p>\n