Migrating Away from Netlify DNS

[tso]

Hello,

What is the process for migrating away from Netlify DNS? I need to go back to Google Domains as Netlify DNS does not offer DNSSEC.

My netlify site is pedantic-morse-b8d4f0.netlify.app.The custom domain name is https://www.deha.io.

My site is not yet in production so the site being down is not really an issue.

Thanks in advance!

[gregraven]

@tso Welcome to the Netlify community.

This is easy – simple change the delegation of your name servers with your registrar, which looks to be key-systems.net.

Then configure your DNS settings with key-systems appropriately.

Custom domains

[luke]

Hi, @tso. I also wanted to mention you must delete the DNS zone if you are not going to use it here:

https://app.netlify.com/account/dns/deha.io

There is more about why this is required here:

[Support Guide] How to detect and fix inactive Netlify DNS zones

What is an “inactive Netlify DNS zone”? First, it would help to define the term “DNS zone”. Quoting wikipedia, it says: A DNS zone is any distinct, contiguous portion of the domain name space in the Domain Name System (DNS) for which administrative responsibility has been delegated to a single manager. To paraphrase, a DNS zone is a collection of all the DNS records for a custom domain. When you add custom domains to Netlify DNS we create a DNS zone which stores all the DNS records for tha…

If there are other questions or concerns, please let us know.

[tso]

Thank you! Deleting the DNS zone was the missing piece.