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Updated on 2023-12-01 GMT+08:00
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Regaining a Domain Name

Prerequisites

  • You have registered the domain name with a domain name registrar.
  • You are the holder of the domain name.

Retrieving the Domain Name from Third-Party Registrar

You have registered a domain name example.com and want to use Huawei Cloud DNS to resolve the domain name. When you create a public zone for the domain name, a message is displayed indicating that the public zone has been created by another user.

In this case, you can configure a TXT record for the domain name in the third-party DNS service. The domain name will be retrieved after you verify that the TXT record has taken effect.

Obtain the TXT record.

  1. Go to the Public Zones page.
  1. Click Create Public Zone.
  2. Set Domain Name to your domain name, configure the other parameters, and click OK.

    If the zone has already been created by another user, a message is displayed.

  3. Click Regain domain name in the message.
    Figure 1 Regaining a domain name

    The Regain Domain Name dialog box is displayed, where you can view the TXT record used to verify the domain name holder.

    Figure 2 Regaining a domain name

Configure a TXT record for the domain name.

Configure a TXT record for the domain name in the third-party DNS service.

The following operations are for reference only. For details, see the documentation provided by the DNS service provider.

  1. Log in to the management console of the DNS service provider, locate the domain name in the domain name list, and then go to the page that displays the records of the domain name.
  2. Configure a TXT record.
    • Select the TXT record type.
    • Set the record name or host name to huaweiyunRetrieval.
    • Set the value to 4924e0ee8e914f0f8e99ac9052565627.
  3. Confirm the configuration and submit your request.

    If the status of the record becomes Normal, the TXT record has taken effect.

Verify the TXT record.

  1. Go back to the dialog box shown in 4 and click Verify.

    The TXT record will be verified. If the verification is successful, the public zone will be created for your domain name.

Parent topic: Public Zones