Creating a Public Zone

Function

Create a public zone.

URI

POST /v2/zones

Request

Parameter description

**Table 1** Parameters in the request
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Domain name registered with the domain name registrar If a domain name is ended with a dot (.), it cannot exceed 254 characters. If a domain name is not ended with a dot (.), it cannot exceed 253 characters. A domain name cannot exceed 63 characters. Multiple domain names are separated with dots (.). A domain name is case insensitive. Uppercase letters will also be converted into lowercase letters.
description	No	String	Description of the zone, which cannot exceed 255 characters The value is left blank by default.
zone_type	No	String	Zone type, which can be public or private public: public zones accessible to hosts on the Internet private: private zones accessible only to hosts in specified VPCs If the value is left blank, a public zone will be created. For details about how to create a private zone, see Creating a Private Zone.
email	No	String	Email address of the administrator managing the zone The default value is the service email address.
ttl	No	Integer	Caching period of the SOA record set (in seconds) The value ranges from 1 to 2147483647. The default value is 300.
tags	No	Array of object	Resource tag. For details, see Table 2. The value is left blank by default.

**Table 2** Description of the **tags** field
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
key	Yes	String	Tag key A key can contain up to 36 Unicode characters. key must be specified. Equal signs (=), asterisks (*), left angle brackets (<), right angle brackets (>), backslashes (\), commas (,), vertical bars (\|), and slashes (/) are not allowed. The first and last characters cannot be spaces.
value	No	String	Tag value Each value can contain a maximum of 43 Unicode characters and can be an empty string. Equal signs (=), asterisks (*), left angle brackets (<), right angle brackets (>), backslashes (\), commas (,), vertical bars (\|), and slashes (/) are not allowed. The first and last characters cannot be spaces.

Example request

Create a public zone named example.com.

POST https://{DNS_Endpoint}/v2/zones

{
    "name": "example.com.",
    "description": "This is an example zone.",
    "zone_type": "public",
    "email": "xx@example.org",
    "ttl": 300,
    "tags": [
        {
          "key": "key1",
          "value": "value1"
        }
    ]
}

Response

Parameter description

**Table 3** Parameters in the response
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Zone ID, which is a UUID used to identify the zone
name	String	Zone name
description	String	Zone description
email	String	Email address of the administrator managing the zone
zone_type	String	Zone type, which can be public or private
ttl	Integer	TTL value of the SOA record set in the zone The value ranges from 1 to 2147483647. The default value is 300.
serial	Integer	Serial number in the SOA record set in a zone, which identifies the change on the primary DNS server This parameter is not used currently.
status	String	Resource status For details, see Resource Status.
record_num	Integer	Number of record sets in the zone
pool_id	String	Pool ID of the zone, which is assigned by the system
project_id	String	Project ID of the zone
created_at	String	Time when the zone was created The UTC time format is used: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
updated_at	String	Time when the zone was updated The UTC time format is used: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.
links	Object	Link to the current resource or other related resources. When a response is broken into pages, a next link is provided to retrieve all results. For details, see Table 4.
masters	Array of strings	Master DNS servers, from which the slave servers get DNS information This parameter is not used currently.

**Table 4** Description of the **links** field
Parameter	Type	Description
self	String	Link to the current resource
next	String	Link to the next page

Example response

{
    "id": "2c9eb155587194ec01587224c9f90149",
    "name": "example.com.",
    "description": "This is an example zone.",
    "email": "xx@example.com",
    "ttl": 300,
    "serial": 1,
    "masters": [],
    "status": "PENDING_CREATE",
    "links": {
        "self": "https://Endpoint/v2/zones/2c9eb155587194ec01587224c9f90149"
    },
    "pool_id": "00000000570e54ee01570e9939b20019",
    "project_id": "e55c6f3dc4e34c9f86353b664ae0e70c",
    "zone_type": "public",
    "created_at": "2016-11-17T11:56:03.439",
    "updated_at": null,
    "record_num": 0
}