1. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium, comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: receive, from a client device, at an authoritative domain name system (DNS) zone, a request to resolve a domain name to an Internet Protocol (IP) address; identify that the request cannot be satisfied via the authoritative DNS zone; and based upon identifying that the request cannot be satisfied via the authoritative DNS zone: determine whether a forwarder service is enabled, by identifying whether a forwarder indication is present in an authoritative DNS zone configuration file specific to the authoritative DNS zone; in response to determining that the forwarder service is enabled for the authoritative DNS zone: parse from the forwarder indication a forwarder service IP address of the forwarder service; and forward the request to the forwarder service IP address of the forwarder service; and in response to determining that the forwarder service is not enabled, refrain from forwarding the request to the forwarder service.