There are two applications where you can validate a domain: Domain Validation Manager (DOM) and Property Manager (PM). You can choose the one that best suits your needs.

Validation in Domain Ownership Manager (DOM)

The application is independent from Property Manager and allows you to proactively and pre-emptively complete the validation process. Once a validation is completed in DOM, you don't have to repeat the process in Property Manager.

In Domain Ownership Manager, you can view all the domains submitted for validation, with their validation status. You can perform operations to manage your domains:

• Immediately validate domains in a Validating status.
• Invalidate a domain.
• Delete a validation.

See how to validate a domain in DOM.

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Your access to the operations in DOM depends on your assigned user permissions. If you have read-only access, you can see a list of domains and monitor their status, but you don’t see the action buttons. If you have write permissions, you can submit a domain for validation. If you have delete permissions, you can invalidate and delete domains.

Validation in Property Manager

In Property Manager, when you add a new hostname, you are presented with the DNS records and/or tokens necessary to complete a validation. The validation process can be done in PM as you add the hostname, without having to switch to a separate DOM application.

Note that you need to complete the validation before you can activate the version you are adding hostname(s) to.

While this check won't be enforced for all customers at launch, domain validation will eventually become mandatory, and failure to complete it will result in blocked activations.

Read how to validate a domain in PM.

Workflow overview

In both DOM and PM, domain validation follows the same workflow.

Tokens (CNAME, TXT or HTTP) are provided to complete the validation process. These tokens have an expiration, and if the token expires, the domain is marked as expired and deleted automatically. You can submit the domain again to generate a new token and validate the domain.

There are various validation scopes and methods you can use for your domains. The validation process is happening in the background and you can monitor its current status in the UI.

Once a validation is completed, it doesn’t expire and you don’t need to revalidate it.