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Rurik
Asked: 2022-04-15 09:11:21 +0800 CST

Does creating a 10th level domain require creating 9 domain that preced to it?

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Let's say, I own a domain example.com and it's setup correctly in my domain management dashboard. Now I want to create a long subdomain of the 10th level:

d10.d9.d8....d2.example.com

Will all that require that I somehow specify the IP addresses, or whatever what's required, for all the 9 domains that preced it? Or can I go straight to d10. and specify the IP address for d10 only?

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1 Answers

  1. A major misconception is that a dot in a name is necessarily a delegation. It is NOT.

    Said otherwise, in the zonefile of example.com you can totally have this line:

    d10.d9.d8.d7.d6.d5.d4.d3.d2.d1.d0 300 IN TXT "why not?"
d10.d9.d8.d7.d6.d5.d4.d3.d2.d1.d0 300 IN A 192.0.2.42

    You can look at my longer answer for a similar question ("Do intermediate subdomains need to exist?") at https://serverfault.com/a/973788/396475 from which I am copying here only this:

    TL;DR: yes intermediate subdomains need to exist, at least when queried for, per definition of the DNS; they may not exist in the zonefile though.

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