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Alibaba Cloud DNS:Batch operations

Last Updated:Oct 24, 2025

Alibaba Cloud DNS for PrivateZone provides batch import and download features to help you efficiently manage many DNS records.

Batch delete Private Zone authoritative domain names

  1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console for PrivateZone.

  2. Click Built-in Authoritative, and then click User Domains on this tab.

  3. Select the zones that you want to delete and click Batch Delete.image

  4. In the Delete Zone Prompt dialog box, click OK.

Import DNS records in a batch

  1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console for PrivateZone.

  2. Click Built-in Authoritative, and then click User Domains on this tab.

  3. On the User Domains tab, find the domain name that you want to manage and click DNS Settings in the Actions column.

  4. On the DNS Records page, click Batch Import. Then, on the Import page, click Download Template.image

  5. Add the DNS records that you want to import to the template file. Then, click Upload File and select the updated template file.

  6. The system automatically creates an asynchronous task. You can click View Details at the top of the console to view the task result. You can also verify that the DNS records are imported on the DNS Records page.image

Pause, enable, or delete DNS records in a batch

  1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console for PrivateZone.

  2. Click Built-in Authoritative, and then click User Domains on this tab.

  3. On the User Domains tab, find the domain name that you want to manage and click DNS Settings in the Actions column.

  4. On the DNS Records page, select the DNS records that you want to manage and click Batch Pause, Batch Enable, or Batch Delete.image

  5. If you delete DNS records in a batch, a Delete Record Prompt dialog box appears after you click Batch Delete. Click OK to complete the operation.

    Note

    These batch operations are asynchronous. Click View Details at the top of the PrivateZone page to view the results in the Asynchronous Tasks dialog box.

Download DNS records

  1. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console for PrivateZone.

  2. Click Built-in Authoritative, and then click User Domains on this tab.

  3. On the User Domains tab, find the domain name that you want to manage and click DNS Settings in the Actions column.

  4. On the DNS Settings tab, click the download icon on the right.image

  5. In the Export DNS Records dialog box, set Export Data File Format to xlsx or Zone, and then click OK.

  6. Click View Details at the top of the console page. Then, in the asynchronous task dialog box, click Download.

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Limits

Operation type

Scope

Description

Batch import domain names

Not applicable

This feature is not supported.

Batch delete domain names

1 to 100

You can delete up to 50 domain names at a time in the console. You can call an API operation to delete up to 100 domain names at a time.

Batch import DNS records

xls, xlsx, or zone

The file must be in the XLS, XLSX, or zone format.

1 to 1,000 records per operation

You can import up to 1,000 DNS records at a time. Records that exceed the limit are not imported.

2 MB per operation

The size of the imported file cannot exceed 2 MB.

Batch delete DNS records

1 to 100

The number of DNS records that you can delete in a batch.

Batch pause or enable DNS records

1 to 100

The number of DNS records that you can pause or enable in a batch.