title: route53 domain name is not connecting with my ec2 elastic ip
body: <p>I'm running an ec2 instance. If I ping the instance based on its elastic IP I get a response. If I use my registered domain I can not access that elastic IP address anymore. In Route 53 (under the DNS Management) I have 1 hosted zone with 3 record sets: </p>
  
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  <li>an A record set with my domain  and the elastic ip address </li>
  <li>an automatically assigned AWS NS record</li>
  <li>an automatically assigned AWS SOA record</li>
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  <p>So, basically the only entry I added was the A (that corresponds to the name of my domain  and the elastic IP address  as a value. Not sure why it's not binding. </p>
  
  <p>My ec2 instance has no firewall and for the time-being both (the inbound and the outbound) sections of my aws firewall are set to "all traffic". </p>
  
  <p>when I use a domain validator I do not get anything back. It behaves as if the domain did not exist. The domain was created over a year ago (so this is not a new domain). I checked in the dash-board and as far as I can tell all the information (contact info, verification info) looks fine.</p>
  
  <p>Furthermore, the "test-record" feature in the Route 53 does return the IP address on a "UDP" port. </p>
  
  <p>What am I missing? Do I need anything else?</p>
  
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  <p><strong>Edited 2</strong>
  I have deleted the 1 hosted zone and created a new: now it looks like this:
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