Creating a DNS zone

Creating a DNS zone is quite a simple process that you can learn by going through the following steps:

1. To create a DNS zone, run the following command. It is a pretty simple one as it only requires you to pass the resource group name and the zone name:

$ az network dns zone create -g myResourceGroup -n zoneName

2. The result will be similar to the following output. Besides the common fields, it will contain the name servers, which is important if you want to register a specific domain for that zone:

{
 "id": "...",
 "location": "global",
 "maxNumberOfRecordSets": 5000,
 "name": "azureadministrator.com",
 "nameServers": [
 "ns1-06.azure-dns.com.",
 ...
 ],
 "resourceGroup": "azureadministrator-euw-rg",
 "type": "Microsoft.Network/dnszones",
 "zoneType": "Public"
}

3. In my particular case, I used azureadministrator...