How to add additional TXT records for domain ownership verification

Wesley Evan Smith 96 Reputation points
2020-04-10T14:42:07.913+00:00

I have an existing TXT record in my DNS Zone for providing Outlook domain verification. I am unable to add a second TXT record to provide Google domain verification. I receive the following error when attempting to add the additional TXT record: There is already a record set with the same name in DNS Zone. To add another record with this name and type, modify the existing record set.

As I understand, the existing DNS TXT record for Outlook domain verification should not be removed. Is there a method for adding additional TXT records in my DNS Zone to allow for domain verification by other services, such as Google?

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  1. Wesley Evan Smith 96 Reputation points
    2020-04-10T17:36:10.283+00:00

    I found a workaround in that Google offers an option to download an HTML file which can then be uploaded into my site to provide verification. This option does not require the additional TXT record. I'm assuming that this is a common option that may be offered by other services that require domain ownership verification.

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  1. Maksym Leskiv 1 Reputation point
    2021-11-18T13:06:56.517+00:00

    You will be getting error if you are creating record with same name. But you can have multiple Value lines for same TXT record with only limitation TTL and TTL unit will be same. Works just fine for spf, verification, etc

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