Create a DNS Record

Similar to creating a DNS zone, you need to provide the UUID of the DNS zone to host the new record.

Note: DNS records are further categorized into various record types, each with unique specifications. For more information, see FAQs.

Prerequisite: You need an IONOS Cloud account with API credentials configured with the appropriate permissions.

To create a DNS zone of Type A, follow this step:

• Perform a POST request with these details:

  • corresponding UUID of the DNS zone,

  • name of the subdomain; example: www

  • record type; in this case: A,

  • content or destination of the A record in the form of an IPv4 address; example: 1.1.1.1

  • TTL you need (minimum 60 seconds and maximum 86.400 seconds), and

  • status of the DNS record (enable), true or false.

Result: On a successful POST request, you receive a response with the DNS record having the UUID assigned.

Info: If you want to create a Wildcard DNS record, you need to provide “*” as the name of your DNS record to match the requests for all non-existent names under your DNS zone name.

Request

curl --location \  
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--request POST 'https://dns.de-fra.ionos.com/zones/<zone-uuid>/records/<record-uuid>' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJraWQiO' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
   "properties": {
    "name": "*",
    "type": "A",
    "content": "172.30.40.50,
    "ttl": 3600,
    "enabled": true
  }

}'

Response

202 Successful operation

{
  "id": "90d81ac0-3a30-44d4-95a5-12959effa6ee",
  "type": "record",
  "href": "<RESOURCE-URI>",
  "metadata": {
    "createdDate": "2022-08-21T15:52:53Z",
    "createdBy": "ionos:iam:cloud:31960002:users/87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3",
    "createdByUserId": "87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3",
    "lastModifiedDate": "2022-08-21T15:52:53Z",
    "lastModifiedBy": "ionos:iam:cloud:31960002:users/87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3",
    "lastModifiedByUserId": "63cef532-26fe-4a64-a4e0-de7c8a506c90",
    "resourceURN": "ionos:<product>:<location>:<contract>:<resource-path>",
    "state": "CREATED",
    "fqdn": "*.example.com",
    "zoneId": "2a4428b3-dbe0-4357-9c02-609025b3a40f"
  },
  "properties": {
    "name": "*",
    "type": "A",
    "content": "192.0.2.2",
    "ttl": 3600,
    "enabled": true
  }
}

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description	Example
id	string	UUID of the newly created record	90d81ac0-3a30-44d4-95a5-12959effa6ee
type	string	Type of the resource	record

| href | string | Absolute path to the newly created DNS record | https://dns.de-fra.ionos.com/zones/9747ccb3-e51f-4d5c-8641-b0e8805149cc/records/aa957ef3-f29e-4ebc-ba01-a763abf02878 | | createdDate | string | Record creation timestamp | 2022-08-21T15:52:53Z | | createdBy | string | Unique name of the identity that created the record | ionos:iam:cloud:31960002:users/87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3 | | createdByUserId | string | The unique ID of the user who created the record | 87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3 | | lastModifiedDate | string | Record update timestamp | 2022-08-21T15:52:53Z | | lastModifiedBy | string | Unique name of the identity that created the record | ionos:iam:cloud:31960002:users/87f9a82e-b28d-49ed-9d04-fba2c0459cd3 | | lastModifiedByUserId | string | Unique ID of the user has last modified the record | 63cef532-26fe-4a64-a4e0-de7c8a506c90 | | resourceURN | string | Unique name of the resource | ionos:<product>:<location>:<contract>:<resource-path> | | zoneId | string | UUID of the DNS zone of the DNS record | 2a4428b3-dbe0-4357-9c02-609025b3a40f | | fqdn | string | Fully qualified domain name resulting from the record name and the zoneName | *.example.com | | state | string | State of the request | CREATED |

Quota

To retrieve the quota of DNS records, perform a GET request to the /quota endpoint.

Result: On a successful GET request, you receive a response containing the quota limits and quota usage for your contract.

Request

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curl --location 'https://dns.de-fra.ionos.com/quota' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJraWQiO' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'

Response

200 OK

{
  "quotaLimits": {
    "records": 100000,
    "reverseRecords": 5000,
    "secondaryZones": 100000,
    "zones": 50000
  },
  "quotaUsage": {
    "records": 9,
    "reverseRecords": 1,
    "secondaryZones": 6,
    "zones": 5
  }
}

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description	Example
records	string	Number of DNS records	100000
reverseRecords	string	Number of reverse DNS records	5000
secondaryZones	string	Number of secondary DNS zones	100000
zones	string	Number of DNS zones	50000
records	string	Number of DNS records used	9
reverseRecords	string	Number of reverse DNS records used	1
secondaryZones	string	Number of secondary DNS zones used	6
zones	string	Number of DNS zones used	5