diff --git a/java/google/registry/dns/BUILD b/java/google/registry/dns/BUILD
index 1a2c54637..47d858d00 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/dns/BUILD
+++ b/java/google/registry/dns/BUILD
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
-# Description:
-#   Routines to publish authoritative DNS.
+# Routines to publish authoritative DNS.
 
 package(
     default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
-    features = ["-jpl_strict_deps"],
 )
 
 licenses(["notice"])  # Apache 2.0
@@ -36,6 +34,7 @@ java_library(
         "@com_google_flogger_system_backend",
         "@com_google_guava",
         "@com_google_monitoring_client_metrics",
+        "@com_google_protobuf_java",
         "@javax_inject",
         "@javax_servlet_api",
         "@joda_time",
diff --git a/java/google/registry/tools/BUILD b/java/google/registry/tools/BUILD
index 1574bd85d..2c2327ef4 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/tools/BUILD
+++ b/java/google/registry/tools/BUILD
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package(
     default_visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
-    features = ["-jpl_strict_deps"],
 )
 
 licenses(["notice"])  # Apache 2.0