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Domain name registration transfer to Azure App Service domains

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Some of the reasons you might want to do this:

- Take advantage of Microsoft Azure’s flat rate pricing, for all domains, that they have agreed with GoDaddy
- Single console to control domains, DNS, traffic manager, web sites (app service) etc. etc.
- Better automation/api functionality (in my opinion) than what some of the domain name hosting companies offer.

Run migration process on domain registrator

Go to current domain registrator WEB page, and run process transfer domain to other registrator. You will get transfer code by email.

Azure move domain

  1. Go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/appservice/domains/create-or-update#code-try-0
  2. Press “Try it” button on Creates or updates a domain.
  3. fill fields with information:
    domainName - transfered domain name
    resourceGroupName - Resource group name
    subscriptionId - select subscribtion
    api-version - 2021-03-01
  4. Body: 
    {  
  location: "Global",  
  properties: {  
   contactAdmin: "Alex *****",  
   contactBilling: "Alex *****",  
   contactRegistrant: "Alex ****",  
   contactTech: "Alex *****",  
   privacy: "True",  
   autoRenew: "True",  
   authCode: "ZA*********D0D",  
   Consent: {  
    agreedAt: "2021-11-10T10:10:40",  
    agreedBy: "70.**.90.**",  
    agreementKeys: ["DNPA","DNTA"]  
   }  
  }
}

  5. Press “Run”
    If you recived code 202 or 200, command run successfully. Need wait when transfer done around 5 days.
    Response example: 
       {
   "id": "/subscriptions/a9a16642-****-4a34-****-**********/resourceGroups/RG-US-DNS/providers/Microsoft.DomainRegistration/domains/****-****.com",
   "name": "****-***.com",
   "type": "Microsoft.DomainRegistration/domains",
   "location": "global",
   "properties": {
   "registrationStatus": "Pending",
   "provisioningState": "InProgress",
   "nameServers": [],
   "privacy": true,
   "createdTime": "2012-08-30T07:40:50",
   "autoRenew": true,
   "readyForDnsRecordManagement": false,
   "managedHostNames": [],
   "domainNotRenewableReasons": [
   "ExpirationNotInRenewalTimeRange",
   "RegistrationStatusNotSupportedForRenewal"
   ]
   }
   }

Set up DNS zone and delegation domain on AzureAD

  1. Go to potral.azure.com and open Resource group where you type on previos step.
    You will see App Service Domain with your transfered domain name. Open it.
  2. Press “Delegate to Azure DNS zone” button, it will create on same Rosource group DNS zone for that domain.
  3. Open DNS zone with your transfered domain name, and add all DNS records

Make transfer domain use Postman and Azure API

Prepare

Go to cloud shell: https://portal.azure.com/#cloudshell/

az ad sp create-for-rbac

   {
     "appId": "cb935b8b-****-44e4-****-***********",
     "displayName": "azure-cli-2021-11-10-11-06-21",
     "name": "cb935b8b-****-44e4-****-**********",
     "password": "yEdU~**********~DzjB4",
     "tenant": "c4c4824d-****-498c-****-*********"
   }

# Get Subbscription
az account show --query id -o tsv
  a9a16642-****-4a34-****-************

Postman Settings

  1. Create new collection with name “AzureAPI”, and set variables on “Variables tab”, press save button 
    clientId - <az ad sp create-for-rbac - appID>
clientSecret - <az ad sp create-for-rbac - password>
tenantId - <az ad sp create-for-rbac - tenant>
subscriptionId - <az account show --query id -o tsv output from commmand>
resource - https://management.azure.com/
bearerToken - <empty>

  2. Paste on Pre-request Script tab, next script 
    
if (!pm.collectionVariables.get("bearerToken") || Date.now() > new Date(pm.collectionVariables.get("bearerTokenExpiresOn") * 1000)) {
   pm.sendRequest({
url: 'https://login.microsoftonline.com/' + pm.collectionVariables.get("tenantId") + '/oauth2/token',
method: 'POST',
header: 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
body: {
   mode: 'urlencoded',
   urlencoded: [
      { key: "grant_type", value: "client_credentials", disabled: false },
      { key: "client_id", value: pm.collectionVariables.get("clientId"), disabled: false },
      { key: "client_secret", value: pm.collectionVariables.get("clientSecret"), disabled: false },
      { key: "resource", value: pm.collectionVariables.get("resource") || "https://management.azure.com/", disabled: false }
   ]
}
}, function (err, res) {
   if (err) {
   console.log(err);
} else {
   let resJson = res.json();
   pm.collectionVariables.set("bearerTokenExpiresOn", resJson.expires_on);
   pm.collectionVariables.set("bearerToken", resJson.access_token);
}
});
}
  3. On Authorization tab select “Type” Bearer Token, Token , and press save button
  4. Add in collection new Get request with name GetResources
    On Params tab, Key: api-version, VALUE: 2020-09-01 and press Send. You will get 200 Ok Response with list of resources on your tenant.
  5. Add in collection new PUT request with name TransferDomain URL: https://management.azure.com/subscriptions//resourceGroups/{resourceGroupName}}/providers/Microsoft.DomainRegistration/domains/{domain name}?api-version=2021-03-01 On Body tab, switch to raw mode and paste next JSON block: 
       {  
   location: "Global",  
   properties: {  
   contactAdmin: "Alex *****",  
   contactBilling: "Alex ****",  
   contactRegistrant: "Alex ****",  
   contactTech: "Alex ****",  
   privacy: "True",  
   autoRenew: "True",  
   authCode: "ZA******0D",  
   Consent: {  
   agreedAt: "2021-11-10T10:10:40",  
   agreedBy: "70.**.90.***",  
   agreementKeys: ["DNPA","DNTA"]  
   }  
   }
   }
  6. press Send button

    Reference

  7. https://jrudlin.github.io/2018/10/27/domain-name-registration-transfer-to-azure-app-service-domains/
  8. https://blog.jongallant.com/2021/02/azure-rest-apis-postman-2021/
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