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Validate a domain authentication.



API Overview

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An authenticated domain allows you to remove the "via" or "sent on behalf of" message that your recipients see when they read your emails. Authenticating a domain allows you to replace sendgrid.net with your personal sending domain. You will be required to create a subdomain so that SendGrid can generate the DNS records which you must give to your host provider. If you choose to use Automated Security, SendGrid will provide you with 3 CNAME records. If you turn Automated Security off, you will get 2 TXT records and 1 MX record.

Domain Authentication was formerly called "Domain Whitelabel".

For more information, please see How to set up domain authentication.

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Each user may have a maximum of 3,000 authenticated domains and 3,000 link brandings. This limit is at the user level, meaning each Subuser belonging to a parent account may have its own 3,000 authenticated domains and 3,000 link brandings.


POST/v3/whitelabel/domains/{id}/validate

Base url: https://api.sendgrid.com (for global users and subusers)

Base url: https://api.eu.sendgrid.com (for EU regional subusers)

This endpoint allows you to validate an authenticated domain. If it fails, it will return an error message describing why the domain could not be validated.


Authentication

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Property nameTypeRequiredDescription
Authorizationstringrequired
Default: Bearer <<YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>>

on-behalf-ofstring

Optional

The on-behalf-of header allows you to make API calls from a parent account on behalf of the parent's Subusers or customer accounts. You will use the parent account's API key when using this header. When making a call on behalf of a customer account, the property value should be "account-id" followed by the customer account's ID (e.g., on-behalf-of: account-id <account-id>). When making a call on behalf of a Subuser, the property value should be the Subuser's username (e.g., on-behalf-of: <subuser-username>). See On Behalf Of for more information.

Property nameTypeRequiredDescription
idintegerrequired

ID of the domain to validate.

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SchemaExample
Property nameTypeRequiredDescriptionChild properties
idinteger

The ID of the authenticated domain.


validboolean

Indicates if this is a valid authenticated domain.


validation_resultsobject

The individual DNS records that are checked when validating, including the reason for any invalid DNS records.

Validate a domain authentication.Link to code sample: Validate a domain authentication.
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const client = require("@sendgrid/client");
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client.setApiKey(process.env.SENDGRID_API_KEY);
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const id = 4900;
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const request = {
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url: `/v3/whitelabel/domains/${id}/validate`,
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method: "POST",
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};
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client
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.request(request)
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.then(([response, body]) => {
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console.log(response.statusCode);
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console.log(response.body);
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})
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.catch((error) => {
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console.error(error);
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});

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