Azure-docs: Registrar's DNS management page

[gregdegruy]

"In the registrar's DNS management page, edit the NS records and replace the NS records with the Azure DNS name servers." What is this referring too? Can some examples be provided? Is not it not possible to use Azure as a DNS provider?

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• Content: Tutorial: Host your domain and subdomain - Azure DNS
• Content Source: articles/dns/dns-delegate-domain-azure-dns.md
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[GitaraniSharma-MSFT]

@gregdegruy , thank you for your question. We'll review this and get back to you soon.

[GitaraniSharma-MSFT]

@gregdegruy , Azure DNS doesn't currently support the option to buy domain names. To buy domains, you must use a third-party domain name registrar. The registrar typically charges a small annual fee. The domains then can be hosted in Azure DNS for management of DNS records.
Please refer : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dns/dns-faq#does-azure-dns-support-domain-name-registration

The feature to buy domain names is tracked in the Azure backlog. Use the feedback site to register your support for this feature.

Hence, in order to delegate a domain to Azure, you will need to buy a domain from a third-party domain name registrar such as GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Domain.com etc.
When you buy a domain from any domain name registrar, you become the owner of that particular domain and hence your registrar offers you the option to configure the name server (NS) records for your domain. Each registrar has its own DNS management tools to change the name server records for a domain and in the registrar's DNS management page, you can edit the NS records and replace the NS records with the Azure DNS name servers to delegate that domain to Azure.

You can find the step by step instructions of changing/updating NS records in the respective domain registrar documentation.
For examples:
https://in.godaddy.com/help/change-an-ns-record-19213
https://www.domain.com/help/article/dns-management-how-to-update-ns-records

NOTE : A specific example has not been provided since the DNS record change process and UI differs for all domain name registrars.

We are closing this issue for now. If there are further questions regarding this matter, please reply and we will gladly continue the discussion.

[gregdegruy]

Thanks for confirming this, I choose to use a third-party domain name registrar as you mentioned and have resolved my issue here.