Deactivate a zone DNS service

Deactivates DNS services for the zone.

Under Solo and Teams plans, active zones are charged when renewing your subscription to DNSimple

delete/{account}/zones/{zone}/activation

Path parameters

accountinteger required

The account id

zonestring required

The zone name

Response

Successfully deactivate DNS services on the zone.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "id": 1,
    "account_id": 1010,
    "name": "example-alpha.com",
    "reverse": false,
    "secondary": false,
    "last_transferred_at": null,
    "active": true,
    "created_at": "2015-04-23T07:40:03Z",
    "updated_at": "2015-04-23T07:40:03Z"
  }
}

Changes

Changed in 4 of the 52 revisions of this API.213

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  the response property data/account_id became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/active became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/created_at became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/id became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/last_transferred_at became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/name became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/reverse became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/secondary became required for the status 200
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  the response property data/updated_at became required for the status 200
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  the response property message became required for the status 404
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  added the optional property data/active to the response with the 200 status
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  api path removed without deprecation
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This revision also has 25 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog

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