Release notes

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.