What is subdomain delegation?

Subdomain delegation allows different individuals, teams, or organizations to manage different subdomains of a site. DNS delegation is not possible for Cloudflare domains using a partial setup.

How do I delegate a subdomain to Route 53?

The process has the following basic steps:

  1. Figure out whether you should even be using this procedure.
  2. Create a Route 53 hosted zone for the subdomain.
  3. Add records for the new subdomain to your Route 53 hosted zone.
  4. API only: Confirm that your changes have propagated to all Route 53 DNS servers.

How does Route 53 manage subdomains?

  1. In the Route 53 console, get the name servers for the hosted zone for the subdomain:
  2. Choose the name of the hosted zone for the domain (example.com), not for the subdomain.
  3. Choose Create record.
  4. Choose Simple routing and choose Next.
  5. Choose Define simple record.
  6. Specify the following values:

How do you delegate a subdomain to another nameserver?

Migrate the existing record for subdomain.example.com from an Address record to a delegation. To create a delegation, right-click the domain (example.com) and select New Delegation from the shortcut menu. Click Next in the Delegated Domain Name wizard. Type the sub-domain under ‘Delegated domain” you want to delegate.

Can a subdomain have different nameservers?

Yes, You can. you will have to add the NS records for the subdomain in the DNS Manager for your TLD (Top Level Domain). For Example: In DNS Manager for TLD add NS records Like.

How many subdomains can you have on AWS?

The limits are not expressed directly in number of subdomains, but rather in number of records and hosted zones, among other things. Therefore, there is 10,000 records per hosted zone, but it can be increased. Also you can have 500 hosted zones per account.

What is subdomain routing?

Subdomain routing is like route prefixing yet with scope only within the subdomain. Two primary uses of subdomain routing. Present different section of the application to different subdomain. Set part of the subdomain as parameter.

What is Cname delegation?

CNAME-based delegation is when a domain owner creates several CNAMEs that point back to your own domain. In contrast with full subdomain delegation, individual services are delegated by each CNAME. By doing so, any DNS-based questions regarding any CNAME will be referred to your own domain for resolution.

Do subdomains need NS records?

NS Records are primarily used if you want to break your domain into subdomains. Subdomains indicate you are delegating a portion of a domain name to a different group of name servers, thus creating NS records to point the name of the subdomain to different name servers.

Can a domain point to a subdomain?

Subdomains actually work as intended to since they point to the directories containing the same name. However, any custom domains pointed to any subdomain just points to the root site rather than pointing to the subdomain.

Why do we need DNS delegation?

Delegation. For a DNS server to answer queries about any name, it must have a direct or indirect path to every zone in the namespace. These paths are created by means of delegation. A delegation is a record in a parent zone that lists a name server that is authoritative for the zone in the next level of the hierarchy.