Hey everyone,

This is a quick post on how to point your AWS Route53 domain to DigitalOcean. I’m currently messing around with Kubernetes on DigitalOcean (DOKS) and want to use their name servers to nginx.

The guide I was following (https://github.com/digitalocean/Kubernetes-Starter-Kit-Developers/blob/main/03-setup-ingress-controller/nginx.md) was missing a specific walkthrough for Route53 so I’m just posting what I did in case anyone else finds it useful.

To start, open up the “Registered Domains” tab on Route 53: https://console.aws.amazon.com/route53/home#DomainListing

Then click on your domain and under name servers click “Add or edit name servers”:

Replace the existing aws nameservers with the digital ocean ones and then click update:

The values that you’ll need to use are:

• ns1.digitalocean.com
• ns2.digitalocean.com
• ns3.digitalocean.com

Note that these changes aren’t immediate. However, you should see a success message and receive an email notification stating the changes have been requested.

I found the AWS doco useful when trying to sort this one out: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-name-servers-glue-records.html#updating-name-servers-other-dns-service