update customerDomain returns 400 for Google Apps for work account when changing primary domain

Question

This is a Google Apps for Work account.

It has one primary domain, and one secondary.

It is not believed to have been a primary domain created via Google, but rather directly by GoDaddy and then added to google during the account creation.

Here is the result of the TryItNow call from the Google Developers Directory API page:

PUT https://www.googleapis.com/admin/directory/v1/customers/my_customer?fields=customerDomain&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
{
 "customerDomain": "I PUT MY SECONDARY DOMAIN HERE"
}

Response:

{
 "error": {
  "errors": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "invalid",
    "message": "Invalid Input"
   }
  ],
  "code": 400,
  "message": "Invalid Input"
 }
}

I think in this method you should use your actual customerKey instead of "my_customer". — Gerardo
I will try... But I did use GET on the directory and used my_customer and it worked fine. — Richard Heaton

Luc D'Kenobi Luc D'Kenobi · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-11T09:32:28

Questions,

1 - Are you a Google Apps reseller? Won't work if so 2 - Was your current primary domain bought through Google on sign up? Won't work if so :( - https://support.google.com/a/answer/6301932

If these aren't the issue then I suspect you've added the domain as an alias rather than a secondary domain. Can you confirm it doesn't say 'Alias' next to the domain inside the 'Domains' tab of your Admin Console?

update customerDomain returns 400 for Google Apps for work account when changing primary domain

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