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Akamai Edge DNS
Migrate DNS zones to or from Akamai Edge DNS: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.
See how a domain's records would land at Akamai. Free and read-only.
Access we need
- Credentials
- EdgeGrid API client (host, client token, client secret, access token)
- Permissions
- DNS—Zone Record Management API: READ-ONLY for the preview, READ-WRITE to apply.
What Akamai supports
The same data the translation engine uses when it plans a migration.
- Create zones through the API
- List zones through the API
- Turn on DNSSEC through the API
- Apex CNAME (flattening)
- Apex ALIAS record
- Aliases to cloud resources
- CDN proxy on records
- Routing policies
- Minimum TTL
- 60s
Record types
- A
- AAAA
- CNAME
- MX
- TXT
- NS
- SRV
- CAA
- PTR
- DS
- HTTPS
- SVCB
- TLSA
- SSHFP
- NAPTR
- SPF
- LOC
- CERT
- RP
- ALIAS
Akamai-only records
- AKAMAICDN
- AKAMAITLC
These have no equivalent elsewhere and are flagged in every preview.
Good to know
- AKAMAICDN and non-DUAL AKAMAITLC records point at Akamai edge hostnames. Other providers have no equivalent, so recreate them as CNAME or ALIAS records by hand.
- Apex ALIAS records are stored as AKAMAITLC records with the DUAL answer type. ALIAS records below the apex become CNAMEs.
- TXT values can't contain double quotes or backslashes.