Creating a Public Zone

Scenarios

Create a public zone for your domain name on the DNS console.

Prerequisites

You have registered a domain name.

Procedure

If your domain name is registered with a third-party registrar, create a public zone and add record sets to it on the DNS console.

Go to the Public Zones page.
Click Create Public Zone.

Configure the parameters.

Table 1 describes the parameters.

**Table 1** Parameters for creating a public zone
Parameter	Description	Example Value
Domain Name	Domain name you registered. The domain name can be a second-level domain name or one of its subdomains. The following are two examples. Subdomain name of example.com: abc.example.com Subdomain name of example.com.cn: abc.example.com.cn For details about the domain name format, see Domain Name Format and DNS Hierarchy.	example.com
Email	(Optional) Email address of the administrator managing the public zone. Recommended email address: HOSTMASTER@Domain name For more information about the email address, see Why Was the Email Address Format Changed in the SOA Record?	HOSTMASTER@example.com
Enterprise Project	Enterprise project associated with the public zone. You can manage public zones by enterprise project. NOTE: This parameter is available and mandatory only when Account Type is set to Enterprise Account. When setting this parameter, note the following: If you do not manage zones by enterprise project, select the default enterprise project. If you manage zones by enterprise project, select an existing enterprise project. Before you set this parameter, create an enterprise project.	default
Tag	(Optional) Identifier of the domain name. Each tag contains a key and a value. You can add a maximum of 10 tags to a zone. For details about tag key and value requirements, see Table 2.	example_key1 example_value1
Description	(Optional) Supplementary information about the zone. You can enter a maximum of 255 characters.	This is a zone example.

**Table 2** Tag key and value requirements
Parameter	Requirements	Example Value
Key	Cannot be left blank. Must be unique for each resource. Can contain a maximum of 36 characters. Cannot start or end with a space nor contain special characters =*<>\,\|/	example_key1
Value	Cannot be left blank. Can contain a maximum of 43 characters. Cannot start or end with a space nor contain special characters =*<>\,\|/	example_value1

Click OK.
You can view the created public zone on the Public Zones page.

If a message is displayed indicating that the public zone has already been created by another user, handle the issue by performing the operations in Regaining a Domain Name.
Click the domain name or click Manage Record Set under Operation.
On the Record Sets page, click Add Record Set. For detailed operations, see Record Set Overview.
Click the domain name to view SOA and NS record sets automatically generated for the zone.
- The SOA record set identifies the base DNS information about the domain name.
- The NS record set defines authoritative DNS servers for the domain name.
  You can modify the NS record set based on the region of the domain name. For more information about DNS servers, see What Are Huawei Cloud DNS Servers??