I have 5 native 2003 DC's at remote sites. All are working fine. I want to rename the domain from xzy.company.com to abc.company.com. I read the Domain-Rename-Intro, and followed steps 1 thru 7 on the Doman-Rename-Procedure from Microsoft website. I execute rendom /prepare from a member 2003 server, and get an error that it cannot communicate with the new domain name or a SPD error. I created the new Alias DNS Zone as I thought they should be- dynamic- secure, but I'm not sure if I'm missing something. Can someone precisely give me instructions on how to add the new domain name DNS alias Zone based on the simple domain rename from xyz.company.com to abc.company.com.
Thank you in advance for the help.

John