Delete a DNS zone

Delete a domain's zone when you no longer want Coritan's nameservers to answer for it, such as after you move its DNS to another provider. Coritan stops answering for the domain as soon as the zone is gone.

• Export the zone file to keep a copy of the records.
• If the domain should keep working, set up its records at the new DNS provider and change the nameservers at the registrar first. Keep the Coritan zone until resolvers use the new nameservers, which can take as long as the TTL on the registry's NS records.
• If the registry has the zone's DS records, delete them at the registrar before you change the nameservers (Set up DNSSEC). Otherwise validating resolvers refuse the new provider's answers.
• For a domain registered with Coritan, change its nameservers first. The domain keeps Coritan's nameservers after the zone is gone, and nothing answers for it.
• For a free Coritan name, such as survival-smp.coritan.gg, the Settings tab offers Release name… instead (Claim a free coritan.gg name).

1. In the dashboard, go to Websites, open the domain and select the Settings tab.
2. On the Delete the DNS zone card, select Delete zone….
3. Type the domain, such as example.com, to confirm.
4. Select Delete zone.

The dashboard confirms DNS zone for example.com deleted. and Coritan's nameservers stop answering for the domain. A domain registered with Coritan stays on the Websites list, marked as registered here with its DNS elsewhere. Any other domain leaves the list.

Coritan does not delete the domain's registration, its certificates, its mail domains or a web proxy whose name had no Proxied record. They need the domain's DNS to answer for its names, here or at another provider.

Zone not found

The zone was already deleted. Refresh the page.

The domain stopped resolving

The registrar still lists Coritan's nameservers. Change them to the new provider's nameservers, or add the domain to Coritan again (Add a domain you already own).

The domain fails DNSSEC checks after you add it again

A new zone gets new DNSSEC keys. Replace the DS records at the registrar with the ones on the new zone's DS records for the registrar card.

• Import and export a zone file
• Change a domain's nameservers
• How DNS hosting works

Delete a zone by its ID. The answer is 204 with no body:

curl -X DELETE https://api.coritan.com/api/v1/dns/zones/42 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CORITAN_TOKEN"

Deleting the zone of a free Coritan name through this call also releases the name.