I setup my VM in windows Azure, and I didn't fully understand how it would all work together at the time, so I gave my cloud service a weird DNS name, and now I want to change it. Is there a way to change my .cloudapp.net DNS name? I really don't wanna have to delete my whole cloud service and all my VMs just to change the cloud service DNS. I know I can use a custom domain with CNAME or A Records, but that only affects production and forwarding etc... I want my cloudapp.net DNS to have a different name. Is that possible? Or do I have to delete everything and start over from the beginning?
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- Nope, it's that forever unless you remove it and recreate it.Jaxidian– Jaxidian2013-02-18 15:36:56 +00:00Commented Feb 18, 2013 at 15:36
- 1okay, thanks. you wanna repost this as an answer so I can mark it correct?Tyler Jones– Tyler Jones2013-02-19 05:53:37 +00:00Commented Feb 19, 2013 at 5:53
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It's currently impossible to change the name without deleting and recreating the service. I think this is because they have to reserve expensive (DNS) resources dynamically and they try to minimize the strain on these systems, but this is pure speculation.
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It's an old post but I can help someone else.
When you created the VM (Cloud Service), it was automatically created a separated Storage. So you can create another Cloud Service - with the new name you want - using this Storage and delete the old one. I've already made it successfully.
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Also, you can target an IP with a name from any domain name registration service.
For example, if on Azure you created a site called weirdclowndonkey.cloudapp.net and you would rather it be trustbank.com, you can do the following:
1) register a name anywhere (here's a search all ready for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=domain+name+registration )
2) find the ip address of your server on azure
3) enter that ip address as the target on the website of the domain name registration site.
