Automated Email Validation
Datafinder's easy to use, self-serve data tools to automatically cleans your customer and prospect data.
Quick and Easy Data Validation
Automatically validate your customer and prospect email addresses.
Available as RESTful API
Use Datafinder robust API services to validate your customer and prospect email addresses in realtime.

Email Validation and Updates

Datafinder repairs, validates and updates your customer email list.

Datafinder helps you significantly improve the performance of your email marketing campaign by repairing email formatting errors, verifying deliverability of your emails and updating your customer list with valid email addresses.

This information includes:
  • Number of validated emails
  • Number of invalid emails
  • Number of updated emails provided by Datafinder

Datafinder's Email Address validation process

  1. Find and repair formatting errors

    The first step in the process is to review the structure, syntax and top-level-domain of your email addresses. If the address is improperly formatted, we will attempt to repair it before continuing the validation process.

    "xyz#gmail.com" does not have the necessary "@" symbol and would be updated to “xyz@gmail.com”. Additionally, we will check if the address uses a valid top-level-domain such as .com or .net etc.

  2. Validate the deliverability of your email addresses

    The next step is Datafinder will assess and score the deliverability of each email on your list. A valid score means it is safe to send email to this address whereas an invalid score means there may be a problem delivering email to this email address. Sending email to addresses Datafinder scores as Invalid may not get delivered and may increase the bounce rate of your email marketing campaign.

    • 1. Invalid domain: The email address is associated with a domain that does not exist, contains invalid characters or was created in error. For example, the domain “examp1e.com" is not a valid domain and therefore cannot receive email.
    • 2. Invalid format: Email addresses have to follow a specific format. For example, “customerservice@datafinder.com” is correctly formatted whereas “info*datafinder:com” is an incorrect format.
    • 3. Invalid account: The inbox or account associated with this domain does not exist. For example, there is not an inbox associated with the “example@datafinder.com” email address.
    • 4. Role account: A Role account is an email account that is not associated with a particular person, but rather with an office, position, task or function. Examples include info@, sales@ customer_support@. Mail sending programs will often reject this type of email address outright and possibly flag your mailing list as spam.
    • 5. Disposable Email Addresses: Sometimes known as DEAs, are temporary or disposable email addresses. In most cases, these email addresses are not an effective way to communicate with your customer.
    • 6. Spam Traps: Spam traps are created to catch and prevent spammers. If these email addresses make their way into your customer email list, it could damage your reputation as an email marketer and cause your email campaign to be shut down.
  3. Updating invalid email addresses

    The last step in the process is to update the invalid email addresses with as many valid addresses as we can find. By updating your customer list with current, deliverable email addresses, Datafinder helps you stay connected with your clients.

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Email Validation Pricing

$0.01
per record validated
$0.105
per appended email address

$99 mimimum per file

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Here's what Datafinder offers:
  • Consumer Data Append

    Append consumer contact data, such as email address, phone number and postal address, as well as household financial data and demographic data to your customer lists with match rates as high as 85 percent.

  • Online Audience Builder

    Do you have a high quality list of customers or prospects but you're only reaching a small percentage of your list through online ads? Datafinder appends multiple contact data points to improve online match rates by up to 3x.

  • Data Hygiene and Validation Services

    Clean up your data, fix contact data and validate email addresses and phone numbers.

  • Datafinder APIs

    Use all of the services above through real-time RESTful API endpoints. Get access to the data you need where you need it so you can easily act on it.


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