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    Alibaba Cloud DNS:AddZone

    Last Updated:Dec 03, 2025

    Call the AddZone operation to create a built-in authoritative zone. The built-in authoritative zone can be a standard zone or an accelerated zone.

    Operation description

    Starting from April 30, 2025 (UTC+8), zones added by new users of Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone are set as accelerated zones by default. Starting from April 30, 2026 (UTC+8), all built-in authoritative standard zones will be automatically switched to accelerated zones. After the switch, the number of DNS queries may increase, which can increase your costs. To reduce the increase in DNS queries caused by the absence of a local cache, enable NSCD for your ECS instances.

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    RAM authorization

    The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

    • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

    • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

    • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

    • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

      • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

      • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

    • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

    Action

    Access level

    Resource type

    Condition key

    Dependent action

    pvtz:AddZone

    create

    *Zone

    acs:pvtz::{#accountId}:zone/*

    		 None None

    Request parameters

    Parameter

    Type

    Required

    Description

    Example
    Lang

    string

    No

    The language of the response. Valid values:

    • zh: Chinese.

    • en: English.

    Default value: en.

    en
    ZoneName

    string

    No

    The name of the zone to add.

    example.com
    ProxyPattern

    string

    No

    Specifies whether to enable subdomain recursive proxy. Valid values:

    • ZONE: Disables the feature. If a DNS query for a subdomain that does not exist under the current domain name is received, an NXDOMAIN error is returned.

    • RECORD: Enables the feature. If a DNS query for a subdomain that does not exist under the current domain name is received, the query is processed by the forwarding and recursion modules in sequence. The final result is used to respond to the DNS query.

    Default value: ZONE.

    ZONE
    ResourceGroupId

    string

    No

    The ID of the resource group.

    rg-acfmykd63gt****
    ZoneType

    string

    No

    This parameter is not available to users. You do not need to specify this parameter.

    CLOUD_PRODUCT_ZONE
    ZoneTag

    string

    No

    This parameter is not available to users. You do not need to specify this parameter.

    BLINK
    ClientToken

    string

    No

    A client token that is used to ensure the idempotence of the request. You can use the client to generate a token, but you must make sure that the token is unique among different requests. The token can contain only ASCII characters and cannot exceed 64 characters in length.

    21079fa016944979537637959d09bc
    DnsGroup

    string

    No

    The location of the built-in authoritative zone. Valid values:

    • NORMAL_ZONE: Standard zone. DNS responses are cached. If a cache miss occurs, the query is sent to the built-in authoritative standard zone. The time to live (TTL) value affects the time when a DNS record change takes effect. You cannot use custom DNS lines or weighted round-robin.

    • FAST_ZONE: Accelerated zone (recommended). DNS queries are directly responded to with the lowest latency. DNS record changes take effect in real time. You can use custom DNS lines and weighted round-robin.

    Default value: NORMAL_ZONE.

    Note

    The built-in authoritative accelerated zone is located before the cache module. DNS responses are not cached. This may increase the number of DNS queries and your costs.

    FAST_ZONE

    Response elements

    Element

    Type

    Description

    Example

    object

    ZoneName

    string

    The name of the zone.

    example.com
    ZoneId

    string

    The unique ID of the zone.

    6fc186295683a131f63bb8b0cddc****
    RequestId

    string

    The unique ID of the request.

    54F10A2A-C3CF-59D4-810F-F18DDD93FE20
    Success

    boolean

    Indicates whether the request was successful.

    true

    Examples

    Success response

    JSON format

    {
  "ZoneName": "example.com",
  "ZoneId": "6fc186295683a131f63bb8b0cddc****",
  "RequestId": "54F10A2A-C3CF-59D4-810F-F18DDD93FE20",
  "Success": true
}

    Error codes

    See Error Codes for a complete list.

    Release notes

    See Release Notes for a complete list.