diff --git a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
index 28e77d2ecdfa..d913b0b38d20 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bom/pom.xml
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-dns</artifactId>
-        <version>0.117.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-dns:current} -->
+        <version>0.117.0-alpha</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/.repo-metadata.json b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/.repo-metadata.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d5326bd2da2..000000000000
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/.repo-metadata.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "dns",
-  "name_pretty": "Cloud DNS",
-  "product_documentation": "https://cloud.google.com/dns",
-  "client_documentation": "https://googleapis.dev/java/google-cloud-clients/latest/index.html?com/google/cloud/dns/package-summary.html",
-  "issue_tracker": "https://issuetracker.google.com/savedsearches/559772",
-  "release_level": "alpha",
-  "language": "java",
-  "repo": "googleapis/google-cloud-java",
-  "repo_short": "google-cloud-java",
-  "distribution_name": "com.google.cloud:google-cloud-dns",
-  "api_id": "dns.googleapis.com"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/README.md b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/README.md
index 627f169a5f52..606faddf8659 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/README.md
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/README.md
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ Java idiomatic client for [Google Cloud DNS][cloud-dns].
 Quickstart
 ----------
 
-[//]: # ({x-version-update-start:google-cloud-dns:released})
 If you are using Maven, add this to your pom.xml file
 ```xml
 <dependency>
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ If you are using SBT, add this to your dependencies
 ```Scala
 libraryDependencies += "com.google.cloud" % "google-cloud-dns" % "0.117.0-alpha"
 ```
-[//]: # ({x-version-update-end})
 
 Example Application
 -------------------
diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/pom.xml
index 199c5a15fea7..a2e6271f484d 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns/pom.xml
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>google-cloud-dns</artifactId>
-  <version>0.117.0-alpha</version><!-- {x-version-update:google-cloud-dns:current} -->
-  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <version>0.117.0-alpha</version>
   <name>Google Cloud DNS</name>
   <url>https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-java/tree/master/google-cloud-clients/google-cloud-dns</url>
   <description>
@@ -53,4 +52,25 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <!-- skip deployment until we fully migrate to https://github.com/googleapis/java-dns -->
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.8.2</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>1.6.8</version>
+        <configuration>
+          <skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>true</skipNexusStagingDeployMojo>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
 </project>
diff --git a/versions.txt b/versions.txt
index 46581d9afccc..3cd28b04f8cf 100644
--- a/versions.txt
+++ b/versions.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ google-cloud-containeranalysis:0.117.0-beta:0.117.0-beta
 google-cloud-contrib:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 google-cloud-dataproc:0.117.0:0.117.0
 google-cloud-datastore:1.99.0:1.99.0
-google-cloud-dns:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 google-cloud-errorreporting:0.117.0-beta:0.117.0-beta
 google-cloud-examples:0.117.0-alpha:0.117.0-alpha
 google-cloud-firestore:1.29.0:1.29.0
