This section contains changes to the Experian Email Validation v2 API, as well as a link to documentation for an older email validation API.
17th April 2025
Bulk capabilities: Experian Email Validation now includes an additional endpoint that allows up to 10,000 emails to be submitted in a single API call. The Bulk Email Validation API includes all the latest and greatest features of Experian Email Validation and will enable clients to own the data journey for their bulk email validation needs. Have a look at the API specification and contact us if you have any questions.
18th March 2025
Enhancements
Improvements in validating att domains.
Product performance optimization.
5th February 2025
Enhancements
Product security improvements implemented.
12th November 2024
Bug fixes
Product performance optimization for peak load conditions.
7th November 2024
Enhancements
Capacity and throughput improvements at peak load, for key domains from Google, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo.
Platform stability improvements following database migration.
Bug fixes
Resolved issue with protection_outlook domains where 'unknown' would be returned inconsistently for certain domains.
30th October 2024
Enhancements
Platform stability improvements.
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.
