hi @joshbangle, you don’t have to use Netlify DNS in order to use the rest of our features! You can totally use a different DNS service for that.
You do need to make sure that the domain is completely transferred, though -if more than one DNS thinks it is handling traffic for your domain, things get very wonky.
Where did you go through the process of registering your domain?
If netlify was the DNS for the domain at some point, this may be helpful: