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Updated on 2024-07-19 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 a Domain Name Registered with a 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.

To resolve this problem, you can configure a TXT record for the domain name in the third-party DNS service provider's system. 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 other parameters, and click OK.

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

  3. Click Regain domain name in the message.

    The Regain Domain Name dialog box is displayed, where you can view the TXT record used to verify the domain name holder. Make a note of the record set name (huaweiyunRetrieval) and value (4924e0ee8e914f0f8e99ac9052565627).

Configure a TXT record for the domain name.

Configure a TXT record for the domain name in the third-party DNS service provider's system.

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.
    • Record type: TXT
    • Record name or host name: huaweiyunRetrieval
    • Record value: 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