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Sending Domain Authentication

Authenticating your sending domain tells inbox providers like Gmail and Outlook that your emails are legitimate. It is required to use a custom from address and significantly improves deliverability.



Adding a domain

1. Go to Email API → Domains in your dashboard

2. Click Add Domain

3. Enter your root domain (e.g. yourdomain.com)

4. The dashboard generates a 2048-bit RSA DKIM key pair and shows the three DNS records to add



Required DNS records

SPF

Field

Value

Type

TXT

Host

@ (root domain)

Value

v=spf1 include:psrp.out.convertnow.co ~all



📌 If you already have an SPF record, add include:psrp.out.convertnow.co to it rather than creating a second TXT record.



DKIM

Field

Value

Type

TXT

Host

convertnow._domainkey

Value

v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=<your-public-key> (shown in the dashboard)



DMARC (recommended)

Field

Value

Type

TXT

Host

_dmarc

Value

v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected]



Verifying

Once DNS records are in place, click Check DNS on the domain card.

🟢 Verified — both SPF and DKIM records are valid

🟡 Pending DNS — one or both records are missing or do not match yet

DNS propagation can take anywhere from a few minutes to 48 hours.



Verify API response

{

“spfVerified”: true,

“dkimVerified”: false,

“details”: {

“spf”: “Valid”,

“dkim”: “No DKIM record found at convertnow._domainkey.yourdomain.com”

}

}

This is a staging environment