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www.10000feetup.com resolves to 192.232.251.95
Looks like you have a redirect from www.10000feetup.com to 10000feetup.com. There are no A records for 10000feetup.com. This is why you are seeing the error. You cant have a CNAME on the APEX of the domain only an A record.
Remove the redirect or create an A record for the domain
Are you transferring the registration of the domain into AWS Route 53, or just DNS (there is a difference). If it's the former then this is the process to go through https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-transfer-to-route-53.html
If it's the latter then this https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/migrate-dns-domain-in-use.html
Doing a whois on 10000feetup.com appears to suggest you're wanting to keep the registrar as a third-party, and it's just migrating DNS that you want to do.
The key bit of https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/migrate-dns-domain-in-use.html is going to be step 4, lowering TTL settings. At the moment on 10000feetup.com this is set to six hours, which means any change here can take up to six hours to propagate around the internet. Consider dropping this to something like five minutes until you get it working, and then you can increase it again later.
Right now whois shows there are only three name servers associated with this domain, which is wrong - AWS will always give you four, and all four need to be in here. You can check this at https://who.is/whois/10000feetup.com or on the command line:
$ whois 10000feetup.com
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Name Server: NS-1529.AWSDNS-63.ORG
Name Server: NS-484.AWSDNS-60.COM
Name Server: NS-609.AWSDNS-12.NET
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Gary is right that there is no A-record for 10000feetup.com and this needs to be put right regardless of what the www record is set to.
$ nslookup 10000feetup.com
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find 10000feetup.com: No answer
$ nslookup www.10000feetup.com
Server: 127.0.0.53
Address: 127.0.0.53#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.10000feetup.com
Address: 192.232.251.95
I think what you want to do in the Route 53 hosted zone for 10000feetup.com is create an A-record whose value is 192.232.251.95.
You can watch this propagate round the world at https://dnschecker.org/#A/10000feetup.com
Google Dig Toolbox can also be very useful in letting you know how the status of your domain is seen globally https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/
Thanks for the response! My goal is to methodically transfer 2 websites to AWS (from Hostgator) including domain registration, DNS servers. Before xfering the domain, AWS wants me to change DNS.
AWS DNS, Add Record results in this error: "Domain labels (strings separated by the '.' delimiter) must be between 1 and 63 characters in length"
Here is the best screen copy I could get that shows the inputs and error:
Record type: A record Routes traffic to an IPv4 address Record name Value .10000feetup.com Resolves to 192.232.251.95 Is AWS resource alias Domain labels (strings separated by the '.' delimiter) must be between 1 and 63 characters in length
I am ready to give up and go back to HostGator. I cannot get past this error: "Domain labels (strings separated by the '.' delimiter) must be between 1 and 63 characters in length" when trying to add the website name as an A record without a www prefix.
When creating the new apex record in the hosted zone:
- Record name should be blank, so it's just an empty box with no text typed in it
- Record type should be "A - routes traffic to an IPv4 address"
- Alias slider should be OFF
- Value should be "192.232.251.95"
- TTL = 300 seconds (default)
- Routing policy = simple (default)
Asked ChatGPT to help. It suggested putting @ as the prefix to the record name since Lightsail would not accept a blank. Lightsail has now accepted this record name. I have edited the DNS server name on Hostgator to be AWS DNS servers. A bit of time to see if it works....
Ahhh right, it's Lightsail you're using here, not Route 53.
Yes, the '@' sign is the way to go here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/latest/userguide/lightsail-how-to-create-dns-entry.html#lightail-add-records-to-the-dns-zone
- Choose one of the following record types:
Address (A) record
An A record maps a domain, such as example.com, or a subdomain, such as blog.example.com, to a web server’s or instance’s IPv4 address, such as 192.0.2.255.
a. In the Record name text box, enter the target subdomain for the record, or enter an @ symbol to define the apex of your domain.
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Gary, thanks for your response. Not sure where to make an A record for 1000feetup.com. AWS wont let me have an A record without www as the start. I changed the Zone records at HostGator to have www prefix, but I think this would be if I am using HostGator as a DNS. Index.php on the website points to Wordpress. I cant find redirect code.
Route 53 will allow you to have an A record without WWW. Create a record in the domain and leave the record name/subdomain blank. Enter the IP address
John, please leave the subdomain field empty and enter the ip address in the record/data field. This works straight away without error