Thoughtfully Migrating Route 53 to Netlify - Preferred Order-of-Operations?

[gregraven]

@Wrapmate Welcome to the Netlify community.

I thought I was following you until that last paragraph. If you want to keep Route 53, then get SiteB ready and make the DNS changes with Route 53 when you’re ready. If you want to delegate DNS to Netlify, then someone will have to transfer most of those 114 DNS entries from Route 53 to Netlify and then when ready, change your DNS delegation. The big problem is that your biggest disruption will come from switching to SiteB, and THEN changing its domain name.

At any rate, I refer you to this source:

[Support Guide] Minimal downtime for a live site DNS migration

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 IMPORTANT UPDATE While many details in this support guide remain valuable information, the best guide for a zero downtime DNS migration can be found here: However, there is still great information below and our support team will continue to link people to sub-sections of this support guide when they are relevant to someone’s particular situation or question. The trick with migrating a live site is all in DNS timing. Specifically, we can't ge…