domains
POST /v1/domains/{domainId}/delegation
Check the delegation again now, and restart the fast poll.
Authentication
Send an API key as a bearer token. The key must carry the sites.view permission; a key without it is refused with 403, not 404.
This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/domains/{domainId}/delegation \
-H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…"Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
Forces a live lookup regardless of how recently one ran, records it, and restarts the backoff ladder — 30-second checks for the next ten minutes, then 2 minutes, 15 minutes, hourly, giving up after 7 days. The customer pressing "Check again" tells us the one thing we cannot otherwise know: they have just changed their nameservers at the registrar. That is exactly the window in which the answer is about to change, so it is the window worth checking aggressively. Same body and same status codes as the GET. Requires sites.view, not domains.dns.manage: it changes nothing about the domain — it reads the public internet and writes down what it saw — and gating it behind a management permission would leave a read-only user watching a page that can never refresh.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
domainId (path) | Uuid | Yes | The domain's id. |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
expected | string[] | Yes | The delegation we ask the customer to set at their registrar. Resolved per domain, from the zone's own nameservers where the provider assigns them — Cloudflare issues each… |
nameservers | string[] | Yes | Where the domain delegates right now, as the public internet sees it — which is what the customer compares against expected to know what to change. |
detected | boolean | Yes | Whether the domain's public NS records include the nameservers we asked for, resolved from a public recursive resolver. This — not our configuration and not the DNS vendor's… |
live | boolean | Yes | Whether the domain is being served by us right now. |
state | string<delegated, not_delegated, external, unknown> | Yes | The four-valued answer, and the field a client should render from. delegated — every nameserver we asked for is present. not_delegated — we hold this domain's zone, we got a… |
answered_by | string<resolver, registry, none> | Yes | Who answered. resolver is a public recursive resolver — what the internet sees. registry is the registry's own RDAP record, used as a fallback when the resolver says nothing… |
checked_at | string | Yes | When this reading was taken. |
last_delegated_at | string | Yes | When we last saw this domain delegated to us. Null means it never has been — which is what separates "waiting for you" from "this stopped working". |
next_check_at | string | Yes | When the background poller will look again, so a client can wait rather than poll blind. Null once the domain is live or the poller has given up. |
drifted | boolean | Yes | This domain was delegated to us and positively is not any more. A warning about something that broke, not a step still to do. |
served_by_us | object | No | Whether a one-time token placed in the site's files on our servers came back when fetched through the domain's PUBLIC name — the only reading that can say the domain reaches us… |
served_checked_at | object | No | When served_by_us was last measured, or null for never. |
www_resolves | object | No | Whether www. in front of the domain has any public address. null means the lookup did not answer, never that the name is missing. |
dns_actions | object[] | No | Records the customer must add at THEIR DNS provider, exactly as written — only for a domain whose DNS we do not run (in a zone delegated to us, the platform publishes the record… |
mail_measured | boolean | No | Whether the domain's published mail (MX, SPF) has been read yet. While false, a mail_mismatch of null means NOT CHECKED, not "matches" — a client shows that beside any… |
mail_mismatch | null | object | No | Present when the mail our copy of this domain's DNS would serve differs from the mail the domain publishes today — so changing nameservers to expected would change where its… |
dns_advice | string<keep_dns, records, nameservers> | No | Whether the customer may be told to change this domain's nameservers to expected at all (Q464). keep_dns: a partner moved the site here and the domain's DNS stays where it is… |
expected_ready | boolean | No | D43760. false when the nameserver pair we hold for this domain serves no zone for it: the DNS provider dropped a zone that was never activated. expected is then empty and… |
Errors this endpoint can return
401 · 403 · 404 · 429 · 503