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Verify your organization's domain

Add a DNS record to show certificates come from your real domain.

Domain verification is optional. It adds "Organization domain verified" to your certificates and your public issuer page.

  1. Open Domain and enter your organization's domain.
  2. Add the TXT record Nyvarra shows you at your domain provider.
  3. Choose Check DNS record. DNS changes can take a few hours to appear.

What domain verification proves

A DNS challenge demonstrates control of the claimed domain. It is additional issuer evidence, separate from review of the organization and separate from accreditation of its certificates. A logo, a website link or an email address on that domain is not the same thing as completing the challenge.

Give your DNS administrator the exact values

  1. Open Domain settings for the intended organization and copy the requested TXT record's host and value.
  2. Ask the person who manages the authoritative DNS zone to add it. Domain registration, website hosting and DNS can be managed in different places.
  3. Check how that DNS provider expects hostnames: some append the domain automatically, so entering the full name again can produce a duplicated domain.
  4. Save the DNS change, allow time for it to become visible, then use Check DNS record.
  5. Confirm the status in Nyvarra and inspect the issuer's public presentation.

If the check cannot find the record

  • Verify the record type is TXT and the value exactly matches the current challenge.
  • Check that the record was added to the right domain and authoritative zone.
  • Check for an accidentally duplicated hostname or a missing prefix.
  • Wait for DNS changes to propagate and retry after the provider's stated interval.
  • If the challenge was regenerated, remove reliance on the old value and use the one currently shown.

Copy challenge values from your own settings. A value from another organization or an old screenshot cannot establish control for the current request.

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