diff --git a/src/dns/cloudflare.js b/src/dns/cloudflare.js
index 286f7e719..005800b03 100644
--- a/src/dns/cloudflare.js
+++ b/src/dns/cloudflare.js
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ async function getDnsRecords(domainConfig, zoneId, fqdn, type) {
     if (response.statusCode !== 200 || response.body.success !== true) throw translateRequestError(response);
 
     const result = response.body.result;
+    if (result === null) return []; // sometime about now, cloudflare API has started returning null instead of empty array
     if (!Array.isArray(result)) throw new BoxError(BoxError.EXTERNAL_ERROR, `result is not an array when getting records: ${response.statusCode} ${response.text}`);
     return result;
 }