> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/api-reference/network-services/cloud-dns/records/create-a-record.md). # Create a record Creates a new record for the DNS zone. ```json {"openapi":"3.0.3","info":{"title":"IONOS CLOUD - DNS API","version":"1.18.2"},"tags":[{"name":"Records","description":"Endpoints related to records"}],"servers":[{"url":"https://dns.de-fra.ionos.com","description":"Frankfurt"}],"security":[{"tokenAuth":[]}],"components":{"securitySchemes":{"tokenAuth":{"type":"apiKey","description":"Please provide header value as 'Bearer ' and don't forget to add 'Bearer' HTTP Authorization Scheme before the token.","name":"Authorization","in":"header"}},"schemas":{"RecordCreate":{"type":"object","required":["properties"],"properties":{"properties":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Record"}}},"Record":{"type":"object","required":["name","type","content"],"properties":{"name":{"type":"string"},"type":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/RecordType"},"content":{"type":"string"},"ttl":{"type":"integer","default":3600,"minimum":60,"maximum":604800,"description":"Time to live for the record, recommended 3600."},"priority":{"type":"integer","default":3600,"minimum":0,"maximum":65535,"description":"Priority value is between 0 and 65535. Priority is mandatory for MX, SRV and URI record types and ignored for all other types."},"enabled":{"type":"boolean","default":true,"description":"When true - the record is visible for lookup."}}},"RecordType":{"type":"string","description":"Holds supported DNS resource record types. In the DNS context a record is a DNS resource record.","enum":["A","AAAA","CNAME","ALIAS","MX","NS","SRV","TXT","CAA","SSHFP","TLSA","SMIMEA","DS","HTTPS","SVCB","OPENPGPKEY","CERT","URI","RP","LOC"]},"RecordRead":{"type":"object","required":["id","type","href","metadata","properties"],"properties":{"id":{"type":"string","format":"uuid","description":"The record ID (UUID).","readOnly":true},"type":{"type":"string","enum":["record"]},"href":{"type":"string","format":"uri","readOnly":true},"metadata":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/MetadataWithStateFqdnZoneId"},"properties":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Record"}}},"MetadataWithStateFqdnZoneId":{"allOf":[{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Metadata"},{"type":"object","required":["state","fqdn","zoneId"],"properties":{"state":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/ProvisioningState"},"fqdn":{"type":"string","readOnly":true,"description":"A fully qualified domain name. FQDN consists of two parts - the hostname and the domain name."},"zoneId":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/zoneId"}}}]},"Metadata":{"type":"object","description":"Metadata of the resource.","properties":{"createdDate":{"type":"string","readOnly":true,"format":"date-time","description":"The creation date formatted as yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'."},"createdBy":{"type":"string","description":"Unique name of the identity that created the resource.","readOnly":true},"createdByUserId":{"type":"string","description":"The unique ID of the user who created the resource.","readOnly":true},"lastModifiedDate":{"type":"string","readOnly":true,"format":"date-time","description":"The date of the last change formatted as yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'."},"lastModifiedBy":{"type":"string","description":"Unique name of the identity that created the resource.","readOnly":true},"lastModifiedByUserId":{"type":"string","description":"The unique ID of the user who last modified the resource.","readOnly":true},"resourceURN":{"type":"string","description":"Unique name of the resource.","readOnly":true}}},"ProvisioningState":{"type":"string","description":"The list of possible provisioning states in which DNS resource could be at the specific time.\n* AVAILABLE - resource exists and is healthy.\n* PROVISIONING - resource is being created or updated.\n* DESTROYING - delete command was issued, the resource is being deleted.\n* FAILED - creation of the resource failed.\n","enum":["PROVISIONING","DESTROYING","AVAILABLE","FAILED"]},"zoneId":{"type":"string","readOnly":true,"format":"uuid","description":"The ID (UUID) of the DNS zone of which record belongs to."},"Error":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"properties":{"httpStatus":{"type":"integer","description":"HTTP status code of the operation as specified by [RFC 7231](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7231#section-6).\n"},"messages":{"type":"array","items":{"type":"object","additionalProperties":false,"properties":{"errorCode":{"type":"string","description":"Internal error code.\n"},"message":{"type":"string","description":"Human readable explanation of the issue.\n"}}}}}}},"responses":{"BadRequest":{"description":"### Bad Request\nThe request send to the API was malformed.\n","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"Unauthorized":{"description":"### Unauthorized\nThe request is missing authorization information or the authorization information provided are expired.\n","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"NotAllowed":{"description":"### Not Allowed\nThe user issuing the request does not have the needed permissions.\n","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"NotFound":{"description":"### Not Found\nThe resource that was requested could not be found.\n","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"ConflictInRecordCreation":{"description":"### Conflict Error\nThis record cannot be modified/created because it conflicts with another record.\nThis can happen if you try to create a record with the same name and type as an existing record.\n#### Common causes:\n - **CNAME conflicts**: A CNAME record cannot coexist with other records of the same name according \nto DNS specifications (RFC 1034 section 3.6.2, RFC 1912 section 2.4)\n - **TXT SPF**: A TXT record cannot have more than one SPF key in the record. Try to join them.\n \n","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}},"InternalError":{"description":"### Internal Server Error\nAn internal error occurred. We apologize for the inconvenience!\n","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/Error"}}}}}},"paths":{"/zones/{zoneId}/records":{"post":{"operationId":"zonesRecordsPost","summary":"Create a record","tags":["Records"],"description":"Creates a new record for the DNS zone.","parameters":[{"name":"zoneId","in":"path","schema":{"type":"string","format":"uuid"},"required":true,"description":"The ID (UUID) of the DNS zone."}],"requestBody":{"description":"record","required":true,"content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/RecordCreate"}}}},"responses":{"202":{"description":"Successful operation.","content":{"application/json":{"schema":{"$ref":"#/components/schemas/RecordRead"}}}},"400":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/BadRequest"},"401":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/Unauthorized"},"403":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/NotAllowed"},"404":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/NotFound"},"409":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/ConflictInRecordCreation"},"500":{"$ref":"#/components/responses/InternalError"}}}}}} ``` --- # Agent Instructions This documentation is published with GitBook. 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