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Azure should be its own domain registrar

Windows Azure should offer domain registrar services so users don't have to maintain our domain names with a separate company. This also has the potential to greatly streamline the process of setting up a website on Azure.

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  • Eric-ITaaS commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agree, would very much like to keep this in Azure instead of going to a registrar. Is there a way to transfer domains into Azure? All the transfer solutions/options are 2+ years old and the comments indicate that they no longer work.

  • BenTheBuilder commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    While I appreciate this is under review.. This is a huge miss for Azure as all other Public Clouds offer this service.

  • Bluetech commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    To be honest, this would be handy, but so far down the list of essential requirements. Considering such a tiny portion of the world is using a .com domain. There's so many different countries gTLD registries that they would need to sign up with as a registrar to offer this service and so much existing competition in the market as it is.
    I question really why this should be prioritised over some of the other far more important items on their todo list like zone transfers and the more essential security requirements of enabling DNSSEC that so many companies and country governments now have policies requiring their DNS zones to be enabled.
    So value for moneywise as a business, this should be so far down the list as non essential. Microsoft, focus on the important tasks first before this one.

  • Adam Stone commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Managing domains with a third party creates so much unnecessary work. If Microsoft is trying not to spoil a helpful partnership with GoDaddy, can't they just buy them and get past this already?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is one of the services which Amazon's AWS does very well now in Route-53. If Azure could offer the same (if not better) experience that would be greatly received for sure.

    I would also have a side request in relation to the DNS management, if Azure could follow the lead given by some of the bigger DNS managers (such as UltraDNS) and implement Apex Alias (root level C-Name) that would be perfect!

  • John N commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I believe this option is very important. Imagine, managing domains and App services on separate billing, separate dashboards, separate monitoring, all opened on multiple browser tabs. That's a bit painful but I can carry on. But if Microsoft adopted this option as an azure service offering, that would be great.

    Also, I'm a bit confused about the "Azure DNS" and "Custom domains" section in the App Service. In the custom domains section we can purchase a domain name or add a domain name registered in a third party registrar. But if we can actually purchase a domain in azure, I think the "Buy domain" should be moved inside the Azure DNS, then all DNS options and configuration should be done inside Azure DNS to make it streamlined. If Azure DNS is only for High Availability purposes, then maybe we can just combine it. When we purchased a new domain in Azure DNS, it should be automatically configured for High availability and Hosted features, then it's up to the user if he wants to turn off this feature to lower the cost.

  • René Verhagen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Absolutely, create this option rather sooner than later. Currently, we have to register domains with a separate company, which only acts as the registrar, and then perform all of the management of the domain in Azure. Having Microsoft act as the domain registrar and Azure as the management portal for the domain would absolutely be best.

    However, given the fact that this request as well as the response are as old as november 2013, I have the impression that we'd better give up hope about this. If Microsoft would have considered this, I believe by now this already could/would have been implemented...

    Any reply would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

    Regards, René

  • Reda Ennair commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I want to be able to migrate a domain I bought with another host to Azure and I'd prefer to handle renewal billing in Azure too.

  • Graham O'Riley commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Azure portal should be able to allow you to transfer in custom domains. When settinh up an azure web app it's a pain to have to setup a records and cnames etc. It's so much easier if all the elements are in one place. I know you can now purchase custom domains through the azure portal, but previously purchased domain names can not be transferred.

  • Scott Brickey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @JonathanTuliani, I have been waiting for the portal to support DNS, and I'm quite happy with the results... Currently my DNS are hosted by my registrar, as it makes the management simple... switching to Azure for registrar would remove my last hesitation in ditching the current provider (I'll probably switch DNS anyway, even though my current DNS hosting is free)

  • Bill Wilder commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would use a perpetual domain name registration attached to my Azure account - one stop shopping with no extra moving parts (or other external configs or bills to track - integrated SSL Cert, DNS, and Domain Registration/Renewal). I would want to do so regardless of which Azure services I used, which I mention because there is already an offering for a small number of TLD within App Services:

    "Custom domain Azure App Service Web Apps customers can now add custom domains to their Web Apps account and manage them within the same portal they manage their web subscriptions. The top level domains that will be available are com, net, co.uk, org, nl, in, biz, org.uk, and co.in.

    Price $11.99 per year (Privacy Protection included)
    "
    (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-service/)

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