How can I confirm ownership of my domain by creating a DNS record?

Question

I am trying to set up a custom email domain for my partner's personal website at sanchezgomez.info using outlook.com.

I am trying to follow these instructions. Here's what I've done and where I'm getting stuck;

1. Go to domains.live.com
2. Sign in, click on Get Started
3. enter the domain name sanchezgomez.info, choose Set up Outlook.com for my domain and click Continue
4. Attempt and fail Microsoft's human-proof bot tester before eventually guessing right
5. I am then taken to the Domain settings page, shown in the image below. I enter the MX server settings on the domain registrar and click Continue but it just takes me back to this same page.

I have waited over 12 hours now and it is still not recognizing the change. The record shows up exactly as intended at mxtoolbox.com, but for some reason microsoft isn't recognising it. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You didn't quite enter the MX record correctly. When you enter a DNS entry, if you do not suffix the entry with a . your domain name will be appended to the end. This is how your MX record looks now:

sanchezgomez.info.      3599    IN      MX      10 f926f850ac5343a397ddfd471f0d49.pamx1.hotmail.com.sanchezgomez.info.

Whereas you want it to look like

sanchezgomez.info.      3599    IN      MX      10 f926f850ac5343a397ddfd471f0d49.pamx1.hotmail.com.

When you enter the f926f850ac5343a397ddfd471f0d49.pamx1.hotmail.com. entry, make sure you keep the . on the end.