I’ve registered a domain (almost). To continue the registration, I need to set an existing email address in my SOA record. Currently it’s hostmaster.[domain.com], by default in dns settings. But as I saw, I couldn’t change this. What can I do?
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DigitalOcean’s DNS is a free service and this may be why DigitalOcean has not taken action. Use another DNS service like AWS’s Route 53
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