The Least-Visited, Most-Critical Part of Your Online Presence
If you've never touched your DNS since your website launched, there's a good chance it's slower, less secure, and less flexible than it should be. We move your DNS — records, subdomains, mail routing, everything — to a modern provider with zero downtime and zero dropped email.
DNS Is a Missed Opportunity, Not Just a Technical Footnote
Nobody thinks about DNS until it breaks — and by then, you've been running on outdated infrastructure for years.
Default Registrar Nameservers
Whatever your registrar set up by default, or whatever your old web developer configured back in 2016 and nobody's touched since.
No Real Security Layer
Modern DNS providers stop attacks before they hit your server and block malicious bots — a plain DNS host just resolves a name and moves on.
Slower for Every Visitor
Without a global network in front of your site, you're leaving load-time performance on the table for visitors outside your server's region.
Why We Recommend Cloudflare
We'll migrate you to whatever provider fits your business — but for most clients, Cloudflare is the right call. Most DNS providers just point traffic. Cloudflare protects it on the way there.
Free, Built-In DDoS Protection
The same infrastructure protecting some of the largest sites on the internet, included at no extra cost.
A Global Network
Makes your site faster for every visitor, not just the ones near your server.
Web Application Firewall
Blocks common attacks before they ever reach your app — configured as part of every migration, not left on defaults.
Granular Traffic Controls
Bot management, rate limiting, and country-level access rules — all configurable without touching code.
What's Included
Our migration covers the whole move, not just flipping nameservers.
DNS Record Audit & Cleanup
We've found more than one client with dead records pointing at servers that don't exist anymore. Every record gets reviewed before it moves.
Zero-Downtime Cutover
Timed around your lowest-traffic window, so the move happens without your site or your visitors noticing anything changed.
Mail Routing Verified
Checked before and after the migration — nobody's email breaks mid-move.
Security & Performance Configuration
On the new provider, not just a lift-and-shift — DDoS protection, WAF, and traffic controls are configured, not left on defaults.
Why Iron Cove
We've been doing zero-downtime cloud migrations since 2010. Same principle applies to DNS as it does to email: we don't just move things, we make sure nothing breaks on the way.
Zero-Downtime Migrations Since 2010
Proven experience across cloud, identity, and now DNS migrations — we don't move things until we know nothing breaks.
US-Based Engineers Who Pick Up the Phone
No offshore call center, no ticket queue black hole. You talk to a real engineer who knows your environment.
No Long-Term Contracts
We earn the relationship every term, not lock you into one — the same rule that applies to everything we do.
Pricing You Understand Before We Start
Transparent pricing you understand up front — no guessing what you're paying for month to month.
Who This Is For
Built for businesses that want to know exactly what's protecting their site today.
Default Registrar DNS
Any business still on default registrar DNS with no real security layer in front of it.
Had a Security Scare
Companies that have had a DDoS scare, a bot traffic spike, or an uptime incident.
Need Country-Level Access Rules
Businesses that need to restrict site access by country — offices, customer base, or compliance reasons.
Fighting AI Crawler Traffic
Anyone tired of AI crawlers hammering their site and inflating hosting costs.
💬 Frequently Asked Questions
How do I stop AI bots from scraping and overwhelming my website?
AI crawlers now make up a huge share of automated web traffic, and left unmanaged they can slow your site down, inflate hosting costs, and scrape your content without permission. If you're on Cloudflare, you get granular control over this out of the box — traffic is classified into Search, Training, and Agent crawlers, so you can allow the bots that send you visitors (like search indexers) while blocking the ones that just take your content. As of late 2026, Cloudflare blocks Training and Agent bots by default on new domains, but tuning this correctly for your specific site is part of what we set up during a DNS migration.
Can I restrict my website so it's only accessible from certain countries?
Yes — this is a common request for companies that only operate or serve customers in specific regions. Once your DNS sits behind a provider like Cloudflare, country-level access rules are a straightforward firewall configuration: allow traffic only from the countries where you have offices or customers, and block or challenge everything else. It's a quick way to cut down on irrelevant traffic, credential-stuffing attempts, and bot noise from regions you don't do business in — and it's one of the configurations we set up as part of every DNS migration.
Will my email break during the migration?
No. Mail routing is verified before and after the cutover as a standard part of the migration, not an afterthought. We confirm MX records, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are correctly reproduced on the new provider before we ever flip nameservers, so nobody's email breaks mid-move.
Do I have to switch to Cloudflare?
No. We'll migrate you to whatever DNS provider fits your business. For most clients we recommend Cloudflare because of its free DDoS protection, global network, and granular traffic controls, but the migration process — record audit, zero-downtime cutover, mail verification — applies regardless of which provider you choose.
How do you achieve zero downtime during a DNS migration?
We audit and stage every record on the new provider first, verify mail routing and subdomains match exactly, then time the cutover around your lowest-traffic window. DNS propagation is handled with low TTLs set in advance, so the switch happens cleanly without visitors or email experiencing an interruption.
What if I don't know who currently hosts my DNS?
That's normal, and it's exactly the kind of thing we find out for free. Book a 30-minute consultation and we'll identify your current DNS provider, audit what's (or isn't) protecting your site today, and tell you honestly whether a migration is worth it for your situation.
How much does a DNS migration cost?
Pricing depends on the number of domains, DNS records, and subdomains involved, plus how much security and performance configuration you want on the new provider. We don't believe in pricing you have to guess at — call (213) 545-0601 for a straight answer based on your setup.
Do you provide ongoing support after the migration?
Yes — the same rule applies here as it does to everything we do: US-based engineers who pick up the phone, no long-term contract required. We're available if you need DNS, WAF, or traffic rule changes down the road.
Don't Know Who's Hosting Your DNS Right Now? We'll Find Out — Free
Book a 30-minute consultation. No pitch deck — just an honest look at what's actually protecting your site today.
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