After domain transfer, can't get name servers to work

Question

I transfered an inactive domain into Route53 recently, and the transfer said it was a success. I then created a new hosted zone for it along with name server and SOA records. However, this does not seem to actually be updating, as the domain doesn't seem to have any name servers asscoaited with it.

The domain is: "augmend.com" and the below settings are where I'm at. I've read through the updating name servers docs and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated. ![Enter image description here](/media/postImages/original/IMHkSGzx8KTIyQ7Kop2UJ8IQ)

Is this simply something I need to wait a few days to propogate? Any good ways to test beforehand to make sure everything will propogate properly eventually?

bwhaley · Accepted Answer

A domain transfer between registrars can take several days - up to seven days, according to the Route 53 docs. According to whois, the domain registrar for your domain is already Amazon:

Domain Name: augmend.com
Registry Domain ID: 1701860576_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.registrar.amazon.com
Registrar URL: https://registrar.amazon.com
Updated Date: 2023-01-18T10:08:38Z

However, querying for Start of Authority shows a non-existent domain:

$ dig augmend.com soa
; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> augmend.com soa
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 58095
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;augmend.com.			IN	SOA

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.			900	IN	SOA	a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1674074880 1800 900 604800 86400

So it seems that the transfer probably hasn't completed yet.

Update: Checking in a day later and I can see that your domain is now resolving. I'm guessing that it just took a little longer for the registrar transfer to complete.

Muhammad · Answer

Did you have dnssec enabled on your domain on your previous registrar ? Looks like dnssec related issue

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After domain transfer, can't get name servers to work

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