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# DNS Zone Not Created After 60+ Hour NS Delegation to Vercel NS

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justinr (@justin-roame-6739) · 2025-11-24

Hi Vercel team/community,

I'm on the Hobby plan and have been stuck in a DNS delegation loop for over 60 hours with my domain remove-background.tech. The site (project: remove-background-tech-v2) works perfectly on the vercel.app subdomain, but the apex/root domain shows "Invalid Configuration" in Project Settings > Domains, and propagation is frozen at \~10-15% global (only 2-3 greens in the dashboard map).

**What I've Done:**

* Delegated NS at Namecheap (registrar) to ns1.vercel-dns.com / ns2.vercel-dns.com >60 hours ago.

* Confirmed via whois remove-background.tech: Only the two Vercel NS listed, no extras.

* DNSSEC was OFF before the switch—no DS records in the .tech registry (verified at [dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/remove-background.tech](https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/remove-background.tech): "No DS records found").

* Domain added to the project correctly (subdomain valid/green).

* Propagation checkers: [dnschecker.org/#NS/remove-background.tech](https://dnschecker.org/#NS/remove-background.tech) (\~10-15% green) and [whatsmydns.net/#NS/remove-background.tech](https://whatsmydns.net/#NS/remove-background.tech).

* Verisign analyzer shows REFUSED from both Vercel NS on DNSKEY queries (expected without zone creation).

**The Loop:**
Vercel's NS return REFUSED because the zone isn't created → resolvers can't get records → propagation doesn't advance → zone auto-creation threshold (80-90%) never hits. Your AI support confirmed this and suggested a manual zone creation, but the ticket form requires Pro.

**Expected:** Manual zone creation/population (A/AAAA to 76.76.21.21 / 2606:4700:20::681a:1525, CNAME for www) to break the loop and get the site live globally. Happy to provide more logs if needed.

Thanks—downtime is killing traffic. Any Hobby users fixed this?