DNS not working after moving from Lightsail

Question

1. I have a domain that was working.
2. I then applied the domain to a Lightsail Wordpress server.  Lightsail wanted to change the DNS and take control of DNS. That worked for Lightsail.
3. I decided not to move forward with lightsail and now I cannot get dns to work.  dnschecker shows no NS.  I have the 4 nameservers in my NS record 
4. How do I reset them to default?

testing inside of Route 53 shows
Hosted zone
// redacted
Record name
// redacted
Record type
NS
DNS response code
Non-Existent Domain
Protocol
UDP
Response returned by Route 53

Answer

Hi There

If you deleted the DNS Zone in Lightsail, then those NS records that you have in your domain registration are now invalid.

From https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-edit-or-delete-a-dns-zone

> If you plan to continue routing traffic through your domain, prepare a different DNS hosting provider before deleting your domain's DNS zone in Lightsail. Otherwise, all traffic to your website stops when you delete the Lightsail DNS zone

If you don't want to use Lightsail, you can create a hosted zone for your domain directly in Route53 and manage it yourself.  You will need to update the NS records at your registrar to point to the new hosted zone.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/migrate-dns-domain-inactive.html

Answer

Hi Matt, Thank you.  I apologize for being dense.

* AWS is my registar for the domain.
* The 4 Nameservers in the NS record for the hosted zone don't seem to include my domain.  I did not change these but I think when I went to Lightsail, they may have changed
* If I test the "NS" value from the "Test Record Set" action, it says, "non-existent domain."

The domain is "verified" under Route 53\regiterd domains\ domain....

Maybe I need to delete the hosted zone and recreate.

DNS not working after moving from Lightsail

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