In Office 365 domain verification was traditionally only available through DNS record validation. When adding a domain to Office 365 an internet site verification text record or mx record was provided. This record would certainly be place into your external DNS provider and after replication and global availability our queries would detect the actual existence of the record. When the record was detected the domain may very well be verified.

A completely new validation experience comes available to administrators during the portal. We are now allowing domain validation to happen by buying a validation code via email. This choices present located on the "verify domain" tab when adding a whole new domain to Office 365.

To determine the e-mail that is utilized to make the verification code we leverage the registered contact at the domain as from ICANN WHOIS. If the address displayed is accurate selecting send code via email will generate the validation email. Here is a sample email received.

In the event the validation email happens to be received the code could be provided from your portal and also the domain validated.

So as to generate the current email address displayed Microsoft worked as kitchen staff with look at providers to query the ICANN WHOIS information. The query occurs against a cached copy of it information. If administrators recently transferred domain ownership or updated domain information - it is vitally entirely possible that the email address we access to in cache is just not valid or outdated.

In case your e-mail address provided in the portal is incorrect - exactly what the options? The exact caching period is not disclosed - in principle one option is to await and continue through to the portal displays the ideal information. If which you have access around the email address defined inside the portal you can buy the validation code. The latter is to pick out a different way of verification when we won't be able to just make a cache update if you want to service the verification email if for example your address is incorrect.