How do you get an existing domain you own to point to Azure's servers?
azure, dns, web-hosting
Solution
Yes, the only way to get this working as you describe it is to fiddle with the DNS, with a CNAME and A records.
A good description of how this is done can be found here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/custom-dns/
Problem
By default, the naming conventions of Azure websites/webapps are `somesubdomain.cloudapp.net` and `somesubdomain.azurewebsites.net`. If I have an existing website that I have currently hosted through, say GoDaddy, and the website is `www.mysite.com`, how can I tell the registrar (DNS) to look at Azure's servers for the website content (I have experience in changing the nameservers to point to a particular web hosting company's nameservers, but it appears that there isn't a such thing with Azure). Ultimately what I want to do is go to `www.mysite.com` and have the content hosted on Azure, running on Azure's VMs. Is the only way to mess with the CNAME, A, etc. properties of the DNS? I have a VM on Azure that I want to use to host my websites. This is the platform that I will be using. I'm not using an Azure "website" or a "cloud service".