Route53 transfer domains - nameserver options

Question

I'm trying to transfer hundreds of domain to AWS Route53. When I do it using AWS Route53 Console, during the transfer process I can set 'name-server option':

Does anyone know how I can approach the same thing using AWS CLI? I have already migrated my DNS records to Route53, so I'd like to use the 2nd option. I couldn't find anything in the documentation: transfer-domain . There is a 'nameservers' option, but there I can only define nameservers, but I want to use the Hosted Zone I've already created.

Here is my command:

aws route53domains transfer-domain --region us-east-1 --domain-name mydomain.co.uk --cli-input-json '{ ... }'

interesting, seems like it is just a convenience offered by web console, not something supported by api — Dusan Bajic
I think I might have found the solution, I'm just testing it at the moment, will post it if it works. — developeter

developeter developeter · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-08T15:41:20

I've managed to solve this problem, leave the answer here as it might be useful for someone else, too.

As I already transferred the DNS Settings to Route53 I just have to gather the records:

aws route53 list-resource-record-sets --hosted-zone-id $ZONEID --output json

Then scrape the nameservers from the output and place it in the transfer-domain command like this:

aws route53domains transfer-domain --region us-east-1 --domain-name $domain --cli-input-json '{
"DomainName": "'"$domain"'", 
"IdnLangCode": "", 
"DurationInYears": 1, 
"Nameservers": [
    {
        "Name": "nameserver1", 
        "GlueIps": []
    },
    {
        "Name": "nameserver2", 
        "GlueIps": []
    },
    {
        "Name": "nameserver3", 
        "GlueIps": []
    },
    {
        "Name": "nameserver4", 
        "GlueIps": []
    }
],

...}

This way Route53 will find the Hosted Zone with the same name as the domain and import the DNS records from it.

Route53 transfer domains - nameserver options

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