This section contains changes to the Experian Email Validation v2 API, as well as a link to documentation for an older email validation API.

16th September 2024

Enhancements
  • Legacy database migrated to new database service to ensure longevity of Email Validation service for all clients.
  • Improved Yahoo and AOL classifications to validate previously unknown response types.
Bug fixes
  • Bug showing inconsistent and incorrect suggestions for y7mail domains fixed.
  • Bug providing inconsistent unreachable results for the same domains fixed.
Enhancements
  • Gmail domain: Improvements to the way we classify certain responses from Gmail to reduce unknowns and provide valuable insight into a users mailbox
  • Role accounts: Expanding the list role accounts that are classified by the API
Enhancements
  • Yahoo domain validation: Improvements to the way we validate emails from Yahoo domains, increasing our throughput, and reducing unknowns across the platform.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed cache issue showing different responses for the same email address, where the capitalisation differed.
Enhancements
  • Database update: PostgreSQL has been added.
Enhancements
  • Improved RealTime reporting

Enhancements

  • Apple domain improvements to validate via SMTP.

Bug Fixes

  • Incorrect DNS lookup bug resolved, remove false negatives on domains such as coralshoreuk.com.

New features

  • Visualize in Kibana if the email address contains non-ASCII characters.
  • Protection Outlook new logic is in place and the new Microsoft API is used.

Enhancements

  • Protection Outlook domains classifications improvements
  • Apple domains classifications improvements
  • Spring boot version upgraded to the latest 2.6.3 version.
  • h2database library upgrade to version 2.1.210
  • log4j library upgrade to the most secure version 2.17.1
  • Common library version upgraded to version 8.3.36

New features

  • RealTime internationalized emails
    • Validate email addresses from domains that support the use of international characters (e.g. á, é or ø).
    • New verbose_output "internationalCharactersUnsupported"

Bug Fixes

  • Fix bug related to the role accounts - All role accounts (technical and non-technical) should be returned as "illegitimate -> roleAccount"
  • Security fix and internal libraries are upgraded to latest version

New features

  • New functionality added related to the domain's type - Consumer or Business
  • Change of label for suggestions from "corrections" to "did_you_mean"

Enhancements

  • Security improvements by changing GET request to POST
  • Improved Response Error Details
  • Timeout parameter - moved to the headers
  • Transaction-Id and Reference-Id are returned in the headers
  • New "metadata" section in the response

Looking for documentation on an older related product or API? Check out Email Validation v1.