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title: "Create a zone"
description: "How to create a zone for domain resource records"
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# Create a zone

1. In the [Control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/dns/default/hosting), on the top menu, click **Products** and select **DNS hosting**.

2. Click **Add zone**.

3. Enter the DNS zone name—the domain name with a dot, for example, `example.com..`

4. If you do not need to activate the zone immediately, uncheck the **Activate DNS zone** checkbox. When a zone is deactivated, the zone and its resource records are not served by the NS servers. Services that use this zone will be unavailable. [Activate the zone](/dns-hosting/zones/manage-zone.mdx#activate-zone) at any time.

5. Click **Add**.

   NS and SOA records with default values will be automatically created in the zone and cannot be edited:

   * NS — `a.ns.selectel.ru.`, `b.ns.selectel.ru.`, `c.ns.selectel.ru.`, `d.ns.selectel.ru`.
   * SOA — `a.ns.selectel.ru. support.selectel.ru.` `<zone_serial_number> 10800 3600 604800 60`, where `<zone_serial_number>` is the zone serial number which changes when the zone is updated and signals to caching servers that the records need to be re-cached.

   After creating a zone, you can [add resource records](/dns-hosting/records/add-record.mdx). To start serving records in the zone to the DNS system, you must [delegate the domain](/dns-hosting/zones/delegate-zone.mdx).

   If on step 4 you cleared the **Activate DNS Zone** checkbox, the zone will be created with the `DEACTIVATED` status and a disabled SOA record; records in the zone will not be served to the DNS system. [You can activate the zone](/dns-hosting/zones/manage-zone.mdx#activate-zone) at any time.

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