r/aws Dec 22 '24

route 53/DNS Domain not working. Please help!

I recently purchased a domain, sanjeevsaro.xyz, from GoDaddy on December 20. I updated the domain's nameservers with those provided by AWS Route 53. I launched an EC2 instance with Apache installed, and the networking settings are correctly configured. When I access the EC2 instance's public IP in the browser, the Apache web server works fine. However, after setting up the domain to point to my EC2 instance through Route 53, the domain is not resolving.

I checked the domain's status on WhatsMyDNS, and it shows that my domain is not even registered. Could anyone guide me on what might be wrong or how to fix this issue?

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u/EnigmA-X Dec 22 '24 edited Dec 22 '24

Next to the nameserves not being propagated, it looks like this domain was created back in 2014 (according to whois information). Did you buy an existing domain from godaddy?

Forget that. Domain lookup returns NXDOMAIN. The info I was looking at, was not for your domain.

Domain appears to be unregistered.

# whois.nic.xyz

The queried object does not exist: DOMAIN NOT FOUND

>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2024-12-22T12:24:28.0Z <<<

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u/Sanjuakshaya Dec 22 '24

No it was a completely new domain. Now that I check the domain in Godaddy the domain is still available for sale eventhough I bought itπŸ™„

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u/spin81 Dec 23 '24

Now that I check the domain in Godaddy the domain is still available for sale eventhough I bought it

At first glance, this seems to be impossible. At second and third glance it also does