Managed DNS Services for Records Redirects Migrations

Managed DNS means a provider runs your domain name records for you instead of handing you a control panel and wishing you luck. With our managed DNS service, your zones live in Cloudflare under our account management, and you request changes in plain language rather than editing records yourself. We make the edit, confirm it resolves correctly, and keep a backup of the zone. You never need to learn DNS syntax or worry about a typo taking your site offline.

DNS management is the ongoing work of keeping your domain's records accurate as your business changes. That covers pointing your website at a new host, adding records so a new email or marketing tool can send on your behalf, creating subdomains, setting up redirects, and keeping SPF, DKIM, and DMARC correct. It is rarely difficult work, but it is easy to get subtly wrong, and the consequences show up as downtime or missing email.

Yes. Your monthly fee covers the domain, not the number of edits. Whether you send one request a year or ten in a single week, the price does not move. We priced it that way deliberately, because charging per change trains teams to sit on small problems until they become big ones. If you need a record added on a Tuesday afternoon, we would rather you just ask.

On Cloudflare, edits usually resolve within seconds to a couple of minutes, because records are published across an anycast network rather than waiting on slow zone transfers. The bigger factor is TTL, the cache lifetime attached to each record. If a resolver cached your old record for an hour, it may keep serving that value until the hour is up. We lower TTLs before planned changes so cutovers happen quickly.

TTL stands for time to live, and it tells resolvers how long they may cache a record before checking again. A long TTL reduces lookups but makes changes slow to appear. A short TTL makes changes take effect quickly at the cost of slightly more query traffic. We keep everyday records at sensible values and drop TTLs ahead of any migration, then raise them again once the move is confirmed stable.

Your records live on authoritative nameservers, which hold the copy of the truth for your domain. With us those are Cloudflare nameservers, and the records sit in a zone file we manage on your behalf. Resolvers run by your visitors' networks then cache copies temporarily. We also keep an exported snapshot of every zone, so if a change needs reversing we can restore the previous state quickly.

No. Your domain stays registered in your name, at your registrar, with you as the legal owner. We manage the DNS side, which is a separate thing from registration. The Cloudflare account holding your zones is yours as well. If you ever want to move on, you keep everything and nothing needs to be prised out of our control first. That matters, and we think it should never be a question.

Often, yes. When legitimate mail lands in spam, the cause is usually incomplete SPF, missing DKIM signing for one of your sending services, or a DMARC policy set to reject before everything was authenticating. We audit what is published, identify every service that sends on your behalf, rebuild the records correctly, and move DMARC forward in stages while watching reports rather than enforcing on day one.

It should not, and it has not. We recreate every record in Cloudflare and check it against your current zone before anything switches. TTLs are lowered ahead of the nameserver change so any correction takes effect in minutes. We then watch resolution from several locations until it is consistent. Website and email keep serving from the old records until the new ones take over cleanly.

Email, call, or text us with what you need in whatever words make sense to you. You do not have to know whether it is an A record or a CNAME, and you do not need to fill in a form. Tell us the outcome you want, such as pointing a subdomain at a new tool, and we work out the record. We confirm when the change is live and verified.

The standard plan covers everything most businesses need: unlimited record changes, email authentication, redirects, subdomains, migration, and zone backups, with responses within one business day. Priority adds a one-hour response target during business hours, emergency changes outside them, load balancing with health checks, geographic routing, and ongoing DMARC report monitoring. Choose priority when an outage costs real money or a delayed change is unacceptable.

Yes, and most clients do. Pricing is per domain, so a portfolio of five domains is five subscriptions, but they all sit in one managed account with one point of contact. Consolidating scattered zones is usually the first thing we do, because businesses commonly discover domains they forgot they owned and records pointing at services retired years ago.

For this service, yes. Running every client zone on one platform is what lets us work quickly and consistently, and the Cloudflare anycast network is genuinely fast and reliable at a price that does not need to be passed on to you. The free Cloudflare tier covers what most businesses need for DNS, and we handle the account setup as part of onboarding.

You can, and we will give you access to the Cloudflare account so you are never locked out. In practice most clients stop after a few weeks, because sending a short message is faster than logging in and remembering which record type does what. If you do make changes yourself, tell us what you changed so our zone documentation stays accurate.

We keep an export of your zone from before each change, so reverting is a matter of minutes rather than reconstruction. Tell us what broke and we roll back first, then work out the cause with the pressure off. Most DNS problems look alarming and are quick to fix once someone can see both the old and new state side by side.