{"id":1014,"date":"2020-06-04T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T10:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1014"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:20:45","slug":"what-to-do-when-dns-entry-for-xxx-com-already-exists","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/what-to-do-when-dns-entry-for-xxx-com-already-exists","title":{"rendered":"What to do when DNS entry for \u201cxxx.com\u2019 already exists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/th-media.apjonlinecdn.com\/magefan_blog\/DNS.png\" alt=\"What to do when DNS entry for \u201cxxx.com\u2019 already exists?\" width=\"538\" height=\"269\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>What to do when DNS entry for \u201cxxx.com\u2019 already exists?<\/h4>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudflare.com\/learning\/dns\/what-is-dns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DNS<\/a> entry for \u201cxxx.com\u2019 already exists. You must remove this DNS entry from all servers in the DNS cluster to proceed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14079612453\/original\/WE8WbPUTzTBcd48ci4M4uDntMfLLeg5J1Q.png?1614676813\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you facing above error when you try to addon domain to your cPanel, it probably means that the domain already exist in the same cluster, hence it is not able to addon the domain.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Do contact support team so that we could provide further assistance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Please refer to the following article to know more.<br \/>\nKnowledge Base: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/empowering-your-dns-nameserver-management-in-cpanel-and-plesk\" rel=\"nofollow\">Empowering Your DNS: Nameserver Management in cPanel and Plesk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to do when DNS entry for \u201cxxx.com\u2019 already exists? A DNS entry for \u201cxxx.com\u2019 already exists. You must remove this DNS entry from all servers in the DNS cluster to proceed. If you facing above error when you try to addon domain to your cPanel, it probably means that the domain already exist in the same cluster, hence it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[34],"kbtag":[1262],"class_list":["post-1014","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-cpanel","kbtag-dns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1014\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}