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Google Workspace

Verify your domain with Google and route your email to Gmail, with the recommended security records so your messages don’t land in spam.

About 10 minutes · Google Workspace docs ↗

Enter your domain below and we’ll check each record live.
01

Your details

We fill these into every record so you can copy them exactly.

In the Google Admin console, open Domains → Manage domains → Verify. Copy the part after “google-site-verification=”.

Daily reports about email sent using your domain go here. Any mailbox you read works.

02

Add these records

Pick your provider to see what to type in each .

How to add a record in Other provider
  1. Log in where you manage your domain’s DNS (see “DNS hosted at” above if we detected it).
  2. Find the DNS, Zone editor or “Advanced DNS” page.
  3. Add each record below. In the name field, type only what’s shown — most providers add your domain automatically.
  4. Save, then come back here and check again.
  • — If your provider asks for a full name, add your domain after the name shown, followed by a dot.
Other provider help ↗
MX

Delivers email sent to your domain to Gmail. Remove any MX records from your old email provider.

Name / Host
@
Priority
1
Value / Points to
smtp.google.com
TXT

Allows Google to send email as your domain. If you already have an SPF record, add Google to it instead.· Recommended

Name / Host
@
Value / Points to
v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all
TXT

Adds a digital signature to your email so receivers can trust it.· Recommended

Name / Host
google._domainkey
Value / Points to

Generate this value in the Admin console: Apps → Google Workspace → Gmail → Authenticate email.

TXT

Tells other mail servers what to do with fake email using your domain. Start with p=none to collect reports.· Recommended

Name / Host
_dmarc
Value / Points to
v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:[email protected]

Some optional records appear once you fill in the matching field above.

03

Check your work

Changes usually show up within minutes. Use “Check again”, or “Keep checking” and leave this page open.

  • — Older Google setups used five MX records (ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM and friends). Those still work — you don’t need to change them.
  • — Email may take up to an hour to start arriving in Gmail after you change MX records.

Based on Google Workspace’s instructions, reviewed September 2026.