Using CNAME Method

Your domain is hosted by a domain hosting service (example: GoDaddy, 1and1, etc). Using the user name and password, Sign In to the domain hosting service.

Steps

1. Locate the DNS management page (typically found under Settings or Domain Management).
2. The help prompt in Zoho Docs domain validation contains a CNAME Record.
3. Take only the alias (example: where CNAME is "zbc8f013d5.pboyle.com", alias is "zbc8f013d5")
4. In your DNS panel enter 'domain.zoho.com' in the Hostname field.
5. Wait for an hour and then click on "Click here to verify".

Verify using HTML Method

Steps

1. Open any text editor- wordpad/notepad
2. The prompt help has a verification code attached. Usually a unique string eg:c8f013d515d14e3fa9ce
3. A dialog box appears with a list of documents available in Zoho Docs
4. Copy this verification code into the text editor
5. Save the file as "verifyforzoho.html"
6. Log into your web server and create a folder called 'zohoverify'
7. Upload the file "verifyforzoho.html" into the folder
8. Click on "Click here to verify"