Introduction

This article tells you how to set up a custom domain name for the Azure VM using DNS Zone. DNS zone in Azure is basically used to host the DNS record. To host our domain name in Azure DNS, we need to create a DNS Zone.

Content
  • Create a DNS Zone
  • Customizing the Nameserver in GoDaddy
  • Add a DNS record in Zone

Create a DNS Zone

Step 1

Login into Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/# )

Step 2

Search for DNS Zone in marketplace, select and click on create.

Step 3

Give a domain name as a DNS Zone name, select a subscription, resource group and location

In the DNS Zone Overview, you can find out the Nameservers, as shown in the below figure

Customizing the Nameserver in GoDaddy

Step 1

Login to GoDaddy

Step 2

Go the Domains and click on DNS as shown in the below figure.

Step 3

In Nameservers section click on change, choose customize from the dropdown and add a nameservers which is listed in Azure DNS Zone

Add a DNS record in Zone

Step 1

Go back to Azure portal DNS Zone

Step 2

Click on Record Set, as show in the below figure

Step 3

Give the name as www, choose type as A, and add an IP (In my case I added an IP of my VM which is created in my last article), as shown in the below figure.


Usually DNS propagation will take some time, we can confirm the mapping using the powershell nslookup command as shown in the below figure.


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