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Validate signup email addresses with DNS checks and Data Tables

Ready for 3.0

by Daniel Shashko ✓ · 14 views · created 2026-09-01 · Document Extraction, AI Summarization

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This workflow has 16 nodes and runs when an HTTP POST request hits its webhook URL. It uses only n8n's built-in nodes.

How it runs

Trigger: When an HTTP POST request hits its webhook URL.

  1. Settings (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 6 fields: role_prefixes, free_providers, common_domains…
  2. Read The Address (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
  3. Look Up The MX Records (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  4. Look Up The A Record (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  5. Look Up DMARC (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  6. Look Up SPF (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  7. Ask Who Registered The Domain (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  8. Fetch The Disposable List (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  9. Everything Back (Merge): merges the data from its input branches
  10. Read The DNS Answers (Code): runs custom JavaScript code

…plus 5 more steps. See the full node list below.

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (7)

From the author

Quick overview This workflow exposes a webhook that evaluates an email address at signup using Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS lookups, RDAP domain registration data, and a public disposable-domain blocklist, then returns an accept/review/reject verdict with…

Excerpt from Daniel Shashko's description on n8n.io.

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