The service tests whether an email address belongs to a domain related to an educational institution.

Syntax…/svc/2.0/address/educationdomain/<address>
Example…/svc/2.0/address/educationdomain/foo@bar.com
ParameterAn ASCII email address as last part of the URL

Result

<educationDomainStatus>
    <infoId>bar.com</infoId>
    <result>1</result>
</educationDomainStatus>

or

{"infoId": "bar.com", "result": 1}
  • result: the evaluation result
    • 0: no company domain found
    • 1: company domain found
  • infoId: if result == 1, this contains the ID (domain name) for looking up more information about an education domhain resource.

Functionality

The domain of the requests address is checked against the education_domain database table. If a match is found a positive result (1) is returned. The ID of the matching entry, the domain name, is also returned for further lookup.

Each execution of the check will be documented as a business event (database table business_event) with type 122.