G Suite: How to Verify Your Domain
Why verify?
Once you verify the ownership of your domain, you can start using Gmail, Google Drive, and all the other services included with your G Suite account.If you already signed up for G Suite, you will receive an email that says "Activate G Suite." Complete the setup process. Part of the setup process is verifying your domain ownership.
How do I verify?
- Get your unique verification record
- Add the verification record to your DNS records
- Tell Google to verify
Get your unique verification record
- Log in to your Domains Dashboard.
- The Domains Dashboard has two views, the Card and List view. You can switch between the two by clicking on the view icons at the top right corner.
- In Card View, click Manage on the domain you wish to verify.
- In List View, click on the cog icon.
- In Card View, click Manage on the domain you wish to verify.
- Click on G Suite in the left-hand menu.
- On the G Suite page, click Admin.
- At the top of the Admin console Home page, click on Verify Domain to continue setting up. Then click Next on the window that appears.
- Click Verify.
- Click Continue to verify your domain with a TXT record (most common). You can also use other methods of verification by clicking Switch verification.
- Click Copy to copy your unique verification record.
Add the verification record to your DNS records
- Log in to your Domains Dashboard.
- In Card View, click Manage on the domain you wish to add the verification record.
- In List View, click on the Gear icon.
- Click on DNS & Nameservers in the left-hand menu.
- Click the blue + button to add a DNS record.
- In the Name field, put the @ sign
- From the Type list, select TXT
- In the Content field, paste the entire verification record that you copied from your Google Admin Console
- It is usually safe to set in the 1 hour to 12-hour range
- Leave the Priority box blank
- Click Add DNS
- In the Name field, put the @ sign
- From the Type list, select CNAME
- In the Content field, paste the long string of text and numbers that you copied from your Google Admin Console
- 12 hour to 1 day TTL is good
- Leave the Priority box blank
- Click Add DNS
Tell Google to verify
- Go back to your Admin Console.
- Navigate to Verify your domain page.
- At the bottom of the page, click Verify my domain.
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