Ensuring Normal Resolution After Domain Name Transfer to Huawei Cloud

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You can transfer a domain name to Huawei Cloud for management.

This best practice describes how to make sure that the record sets configured for a domain name are still active when it is transferred to Huawei Cloud.

Huawei Cloud DNS Is the Current DNS Service Provider

If Huawei Cloud DNS is the DNS service provider of the domain name to be transferred, all record sets configured for this domain name will not be affected regardless of the account that owns the domain name.

Huawei Cloud DNS Is Not the Current DNS Service Provider

If the current DNS service provider of the domain name is not Huawei Cloud DNS, you need to confirm with your DNS service provider whether the transfer will affect the domain name resolution.

Some domain name registrars (such as GoDaddy) do not provide DNS services. If you transfer your domain name from such a registrar to Huawei Cloud DNS, all data about the domain name will be deleted, and the domain name cannot be resolved. During domain name transfer, the DNS servers of the domain name cannot be changed.

To ensure that the domain name resolution is not affected during the transfer, transfer all record sets configured for the domain name to Huawei Cloud DNS before transferring the domain name. For details, see Migrating DNS Settings to Huawei Cloud DNS.

The DNS servers need to be changed if a domain name is transferred. Contact the current DNS service provider to check whether domain name resolution will be stopped immediately after the DNS servers are changed.

If changing the DNS servers will stop the domain name resolution immediately, do not transfer your domain name to Huawei Cloud. Even if all record sets are transferred to Huawei Cloud DNS in advance, DNS queries to the domain name may still be routed to the original DNS service provider within 48 hours after the DNS servers are modified. As a result, the domain name resolution fails or is unstable.