How do I verify my domain in Applane?

Who

Whoever manages your DNS. The Applane admin clicks Verify.

Time

5 minutes, plus DNS propagation

Before the extension will serve your domain, Applane checks that you control it. Without this, anyone could register your domain and point your employees at a hostile sign-in.

Add the record

Setup > Verify your domain shows the value. Add one TXT record at the apex of the domain your employees sign in with:

Type   TXT
Name   @            (the bare domain, for example acme.com)
Value  applane-verify=<TOKEN>
TTL    300 or your default

Add it alongside any TXT records already there (v=spf1, google-site-verification); do not replace them.

Verify

Click Verify in the console. Applane looks up the TXT records at your domain and passes when one of them matches.

DNS changes take from a minute to a day to show up. The console re-checks each time you click; “No matching record yet” lists the TXT values it did find, so you can tell a propagation delay from a typo.

You can check from a terminal too:

dig +short TXT <YOUR_DOMAIN>

While you wait

Everything else on the checklist can be done before the domain verifies. Only the first sign-in from the extension depends on it: until then builders see unknown_domain. See Error messages.

More than one domain

A trial or self-serve company has one domain. Alias domains (acme.co.uk next to acme.com) are added on Enterprise; write to support with the list, and each one gets its own TXT record.

Remove it later

Keep the record as long as you use Applane; it is re-checked. When you uninstall, delete it.