Verify that the domain is yours

On every plan

A domain is verified when we find a record that only its owner could publish. The DMARC record with your reporting address does this, so most domains verify by themselves once that record is published. Until then the domain's Home tab asks you to prove the domain is yours.

Two ways to verify

Either of these records verifies the domain. You need only one.

• The DMARC record from publish your DMARC record. Its rua names your reporting address, which we gave to you alone. Most people use this one, because it also starts the reports.
• The verification record, a TXT record at _mailmoni-verify.example.com with a value the domain's Home tab gives you. Use it when you want to verify first and publish DMARC later.

The Home tab shows both, with buttons to copy each name and value.

How we check

We ask your domain's own name servers, not a cache. A record is visible to us as soon as your DNS host serves it.

For the first 7 days after you add the domain, we look for the records by ourselves every 15 minutes. After that we look only when someone presses Check now on the domain's Home tab. Any member can press it. That button verifies the domain, while Check now on the DNS tab only runs the DNS checks. The Home tab's button checks at once, and pressed again within 1 minute, it asks you to wait.

DNS changes can take a few minutes to an hour to show. If we do not find the record, check that its name and value match the Home tab exactly.

If the domain already has a DMARC record

A DMARC record that sends reports only to other addresses does not verify the domain. When Check now finds one, the Home tab says where it sends reports and shows the same record with your reporting address added. Publish that value in place of the old record. Do not add a second DMARC record: with two, mailbox providers apply neither. If the name already holds more than one, the tab says so, and gives one record to publish in place of all of them.

What verification turns on

Reports do not wait for verification. The reporting address takes reports from the moment you add the domain. Verification turns on the rest:

• A DNS check of the domain right away, then scheduled DNS checks on your plan's schedule. One check already ran when you added the domain, unless you had removed it and added it again within your plan's check interval.
• Alerts. The domain gets its alert rules, and we start checking them.
• Summaries. From Pro up, the organization's summaries include the domain.

Every admin of the organization gets an email when the domain is verified.

If you never verify

An unverified domain does not expire, and it still counts toward the domains your plan covers. Its reports still arrive. It gets no scheduled DNS checks, no alerts and no summaries. After the first 7 days, only Check now verifies it.

Subdomains found in reports need no verification of their own.

Next, wait for the first report. Mailbox providers usually send one report a day, and we email you when the first one lands.

Published 27 October 2026 · Checked 27 October 2026