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Selectel DNS Hosting

Migrate DNS zones to or from Selectel DNS Hosting: what's supported, what access you need, and what changes for each destination.

See how a domain's records would land at Selectel. Free and read-only.

Access we need

Credentials
Service user (username + password) with a project-scoped IAM token
Permissions
Create a service user with the member role scoped to only the project that holds your zones. The reader role on that project is enough for read-only exports.

What Selectel 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
  • ALIAS
  • DNAME
  • HTTPS
  • SVCB
  • SSHFP

Good to know

  • Only DNS Hosting (actual) zones are supported. Zones still on DNS Hosting (legacy, API v1) must be moved to the actual version in the control panel first.
  • Zones belong to a project; this connection only sees the project it signs in to.
  • Apex NS and SOA records are created and managed by Selectel and can't be changed.
  • A CNAME can't be placed at the zone apex; use ALIAS instead.
  • Each record set can hold at most 100 values.
  • Records you disabled in Selectel are left untouched and aren't imported.
  • Selectel doesn't publish API rate limits; requests are retried with backoff when throttled.