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Asked: 2018-01-17 14:46:00 +0800 CST

direct root domain from godaddy to aws ec2 balancer

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I know this question has been asked in quite a few places even on amazon's form such as

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=223727

I followed the documentation too but it doesn't seem to be working at all.

Can someone please give me an idea what I might be doing wrong?

I bought a new domain in godaddy. In dns management, I removed the only A record in it, now there's no A record in godaddy's dns management.

In aws, I created a load balancer and I used the dns name load balancer created which works quite well if I just paste it into a browser such as balancerName-1230.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com

I followed the steps to create a hosted zone in route 53, created a new record set

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I tried in my browser for example.com and I get This site can’t be reached

P.S. while creating the A record, I did not type in anything in the name field to leave it as the root domain.

Is there anything I am missing that's why it's not working? Anyone has idea about this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You need to setup the Name Servers in GoDaddy to use Route 53.

    Login to your GoDaddy account. Select Domains and then select your domain name.

    For your Settings, click on Manage under Nameservers. Then replace the four name servers with the Route 53 name servers.

    Once this is complete, you will need to wait about 24 hours for the TTL on the name servers to timeout and be updated globally.

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