I want to uncheck "register this connection's addresses in DNS" on my domain controller (for reasons) to prevent it from doing that. Will that prevent Active Directory entries from being created? Also, eventually we might need to disable dynamic DNS. Would that prevent those entries from being automatically created? I know how to export an entire zone with dnscmd and import a zone. But, what about just creating the Active Directory DNS entries with either the above mentioned check box unchecked and/or DDNS being disabled? Is there a command that will recreate the AD entries if necessary for some reason?
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As noted by others in comments, there isn't a really good reason for this that I can think of, so yeah I too would probably ask that you elaborate.
When you say 'AD Entries' are you referring to everything below _msdcs in your zones? THe promotion process generally does that rather than them being created by the DC on the fly, but given past interactions with Microsoft PFE (Premier Field Engineering) they would be re-registered by the DC if deleted; however we certainly wouldn't have had DDNS disabled.
That said, I've been through a process with them on site at work where I intentionally tore an AD apart (they call it AD Rescue) and put it back together again. When things go missing under that directory/segment of your DNS you start getting very unusual errors that you have to be very careful with and I think what you're proposing there centers around the DC's NIC and it's own IPv4/IPv6 record, NOT any of the Active Directory service records and the like.
Given what you've provided I could only say spin up a test domain in an isolated VM test environment and give it a try to see if does what you expect, I'd be more than willing to bet Microsoft may reject support of such a configuration though even if your company carries an Enterprise Agreement.
I have a partial answer to my question. Dynamic DNS does appear to be necessary for records to get created, which will happen automatically and possibly any time the netlogon service is restarted. Also, a non-importable copy of the AD DNS entries is stored in c:\Windows\System32\config\netlogon.dns. So, that could be used to see what the entries are and manually create them or create a script to interpret this file and create the entries.