# Verify a domain for your team

How the owner adds a domain to a team and proves it with a DNS TXT record, and why this matters for a team's name.

Only the team owner can manage verified domains.

## Why verify a domain

If your team's name looks like a well-known brand, the people you invite see "A Bluedeer workspace" on the invitation page and in the invitation email. This continues until you verify a domain that belongs to that brand. After that, they see your team's real name.

## Add and verify a domain

1. Open the team's **Workspace** page, select **Settings**, and find **Verified domains** on the General tab.
2. Enter the domain, for example `example.com`, and select **Add domain**.
3. Copy the TXT record that Bluedeer shows, using the copy button beside it.
4. In the DNS settings for the domain itself, add a TXT record with this value. Do not add it to a subdomain.
5. Return to Bluedeer and select **Check now**.

If your own sign-in email address is at the domain you enter, Bluedeer verifies the domain straight away, and you do not need a TXT record. Public email provider domains cannot be verified for a team.

DNS changes can take a while to appear. If the record is not there yet, wait a few minutes and select **Check now** again. A verified domain shows **Verified**, with **Verified with a DNS record** under it. Until then, it shows **Not verified yet**, with **Waiting for the DNS record** under it.

## Remove a domain

Select **Remove** next to the domain and confirm. Its DNS record stops working. If you add the domain again, Bluedeer gives you a new record.