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So, I am not sure if there is a duplicate to this - but I have a really wonky situation that happened during an Amazon Route 53 domain transfer.

I'll start from the beginning:

  • I bought a domain and hosting through Siteground called rtd62.com
  • After a year of having the hosting through Siteground, I decided to switch to Amazon Web Services.
  • So I used Route 53 to do a domain transfer and everything works fine... except there's one odd problem.

If you type in rtd62.com into the address bar, the browser throws back a DNS Error of ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED.

But, if I type in www.rtd62.com, everything works just fine. Did a miss a record or step during the transfer process?

Robert Dewitt
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While you do have proper DNS records for www.rtd62.com, you do not have a DNS record for rtd62.com. You will need to create an A record in your Route53 hosted zone pointing rtd62.com to 52.3.21.213.

Alternatively, if you want to simplify things a bit, once you do the above, you can change the record for your www host to a CNAME, pointing at rtd62.com. This way if your server IP changes, you only need to change it in one place in your DNS.

EEAA
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    `CNAME` includes all RR types, so SPF, TXT, all other records are included when you CNAME www to example.com, just be aware. – Jacob Evans Jun 22 '17 at 01:10
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    @JacobEvans Good point. I checked those before making the suggestion. :) – EEAA Jun 22 '17 at 01:12