How to SEDO self-verify with Nominet

Admin · Apr 4, 2016

Surprised this hasn't come up here before. I've just had some emails from SEDO parking asking me to verify ownership of UK domains. It seems the slickest way is to start doing the self-verification by adding an ID they give you to a DNS txt record of the domain https://sedo.com/member/ownership_verification.php

Can anyone tell me how to to do this at Nominet in Web domain manager?

martin-s · Apr 4, 2016

Nominet don't provide your nameservers. That's where you need to add the TXT DNS.

martin-s · Apr 4, 2016

PS. Rackspace are a great free DNS host:
http://www.rackspace.co.uk/cloud/dns

Admin · Apr 4, 2016

martin-s said:
Nominet don't provide your nameservers. That's where you need to add the TXT DNS.

I think you might be confused.

Admin · Apr 4, 2016

With parking you don't have to bother with hosting, simply set the nameservers at your nominet managed domains to SEDO. There is no txt field there though so perhaps its not an option at Nominet, bit of a hole that for SEDO. Seems its back to the other long winded options of screengrabing contact details and sending them to SEDO for checking.

Admin · Apr 4, 2016

So that's a no then, thanks.

martin-s · Apr 4, 2016

It's not a "no", it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what Nominet does. All it does it allow you to specify the nameservers where your DNS is stored.

It's the nameservers themselves that provide the DNS records, which is where the TXT records go.

Rackspace is the best option by far.

Admin · Apr 4, 2016

I understand, thanks.

Edwin · Apr 4, 2016

Just wait if you don't want to start changing anything... That's Sedo's official advice!
https://sedo-int1.custhelp.com/app/...143/kw/ownership self-verification/related/1/

martin-s · Apr 4, 2016

invincible said:
Are you aware of any product/app that integrates with Rackspace DNS negating using their Cloud DNS control panel to manage zone data?

Just build your own using their api? We did this and it isn't difficult.