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AWS Route53 medium security documentation change

Service: Route53 · 2026-01-25 · Security-related medium

File: Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-transfer-to-route-53.md

Summary

Added new verification email address and updated load balancer terminology

Security assessment

Addition of '[email protected]' improves email verification integrity by documenting legitimate sources, reducing spoofing risks. Terminology changes are non-security.

Diff

diff --git a/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-transfer-to-route-53.md b/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-transfer-to-route-53.md
index e8fdf65c5..7fbee2456 100644
--- a//Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-transfer-to-route-53.md
+++ b//Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/domain-transfer-to-route-53.md
@@ -417 +417 @@ We send a verification email from one of the following email addresses:
-     * **[email protected]** – for TLDs registered by our registrar associate, Gandi. To determine who the registrar is for your TLD, see [Finding your registrar](./find-your-registrar.html).
+     * **[email protected]** or **[email protected]** – for TLDs registered by our registrar associate, Gandi. To determine who the registrar is for your TLD, see [Finding your registrar](./find-your-registrar.html).
@@ -431 +431 @@ The registrant contact must follow the instructions in the email to verify that
-For example, when someone enters your domain name in a browser and that query is forwarded to Route 53, do you want Route 53 to respond to the query with the IP address of a web server in your data center or with the name of an ELB load balancer?
+For example, when someone enters your domain name in a browser and that query is forwarded to Route 53, do you want Route 53 to respond to the query with the IP address of a web server in your data center or with the name of an Elastic Load Balancing load balancer?
@@ -506 +506 @@ We send a verification email from one of the following email addresses:
-     * **[email protected]** – for TLDs registered by our registrar associate, Gandi. To determine who the registrar is for your TLD, see [Finding your registrar](./find-your-registrar.html).
+     * **[email protected]** or **[email protected]** – for TLDs registered by our registrar associate, Gandi. To determine who the registrar is for your TLD, see [Finding your registrar](./find-your-registrar.html).
@@ -610,0 +611 @@ All others |  One of the following email addresses:
+  * [email protected]