How do I transfer or register premium or unsupported domains with Route 53?

Resolution

Use a supported TLD

Route 53 supports only some top-level domain (TLDs). If Route 53 doesn't support your domain, then you get an "UnsupportedTLD" error when you try to register or transfer the domain. 

To change your TLD to one that Route 52 supports, complete the following steps:

1. Open the Amazon Route 53 console.
2. In the navigation pane, under Domains, choose Registered domains.
3. On the Register domains page, choose Register domains.
4. Review the list of available TLDs.
5. Select a TLD that Route 53 supports. 
6. Register the domain.

To check whether you can transfer your TLD, complete the following steps:

1. Open the Amazon Route 53 console.
2. In the navigation pane, under Domains, choose Registered domains.
3. Under Registered domains, choose Transfer in, and then choose Single domain.
4. Under Check domain transferability, enter your domain name to check compatibility.

Use a registrar that supports premium domains

The domain registry decides whether to classify a domain as premium. Route 53 doesn't support premium domain registration and transfers.

When you try to register a premium domain in Route 53, you get the following error message:

"[domain] is not available. See other available domains."

When you try to transfer a premium domain, you get the following error message:

"Not transferable - The following domain is a registry premium name: [domain]. This isn't supported by Route 53. Choose a different domain name. Cannot transfer domain [domain] of type 'REGISTRY_PREMIUM'"

Instead, use a registrar that supports premium domain registration and transfers.

Keep your domain with another registrar, but use Route 53 as your DNS service

You can keep your current TLD with another registrar and still use Route 53 as the DNS provider to better integrate with AWS services. 

To use Route 53 as your DNS service for a domain that's with another registrar, complete the following steps:

1. Open the Amazon Route 53 console.
2. Create a Route 53 public hosted zone. 
3. Get the assigned name servers for the public hosted zone. 
4. Update name servers at your current registrar to match the name servers that Route 53 provided for the public hosted zone.
   Note: The name servers at the registrar must match the name servers for the public hosted zone.
5. Configure Route 53 as your DNS service.

Related information

Configuring DNS routing for a new domain

Making Route 53 the DNS service for a domain that's in use