Hosting dashboards make changing nameservers look like a harmless connect your domain step.

What they rarely mention is that you’re not just moving the website. You may also be replacing the records responsible for email, verification, subdomains and whatever mysterious service someone configured three years ago and never documented.

The website loads, everyone celebrates, then somebody notices the company hasn’t received an email since Tuesday.

Sure, anyone familiar with DNS knows to copy the existing zone first. But that’s exactly why the process feels badly designed, the people who need the warning most are the least likely to understand what they’re replacing.

Why don’t hosting panels run a quick scan before the switch and say: your website will survive this. Your email might not?