So...
Being the AD noob that I am I configured a small office AD to run as "domain.com" with the authoritative DNS hosted off-site. This has now caused the office to lose the ability to access their website at "domain.com".
Adding a A record to the AD DNS server doesn't do much good as AD puts some parent A records that point exclusively to the AD server in there so that gets looked up first.
An NS lookup from machines inside of active directory does turn up both the internal AD server IP and the external webserver IP.
And yes the website is online and functioning. Outside of the AD it can be accessed.
Any help you could render in giving me some ideas on fixing this is most welcome.
Thanks in advance.