This action deletes a hosted zone. To delete a hosted zone, send a DELETE request to the 2013-04-01/hostedzone/hosted zone ID resource.

For more information about deleting a hosted zone, see Deleting a Hosted Zone in the Amazon Route 53 Developer Guide .

IMPORTANT: You can delete a hosted zone only if there are no resource record sets other than the default SOA record and NS resource record sets. If your hosted zone contains other resource record sets, you must delete them before you can delete your hosted zone. If you try to delete a hosted zone that contains other resource record sets, Route 53 will deny your request with a HostedZoneNotEmpty error. For information about deleting records from your hosted zone, see ChangeResourceRecordSets.