---
title: "BIMI logo checker"
description: "Check whether a domain or an email address publishes a BIMI record, see the logo it points at, and find out why an inbox is not drawing it."
url: "https://nextmail.sh/tools/bimi"
---

Tools

# Does your logo show up in the inbox?

Read a domain or an email address and see the BIMI record as published, the logo it points at, and the reason an inbox is not drawing it.

## What BIMI is

- **BIMI**
  Brand Indicators for Message Identification. A TXT record at default.\_bimi.yourdomain.com that tells a mailbox provider where your logo lives, so your mark is drawn beside your mail instead of a grey circle with a letter in it.
- **l=**
  The logo. It has to be an SVG Portable/Secure file served over https: a tightly restricted SVG with no scripts, no external references and no raster images inside it. An ordinary SVG exported from a design tool is usually rejected.
- **a=**
  The authority, meaning a Verified Mark Certificate. It costs money every year and requires a registered trademark. Gmail and Apple Mail only draw a logo that has one, which is the honest reason most domains publish BIMI and still show nothing.
- **DMARC**
  The thing underneath all of it. BIMI is only read on a domain at p=quarantine or p=reject, so a record published while DMARC sits at p=none is never looked at. It is the last step in getting mail trusted, never the first.

Nothing is stored. The record is a public DNS query made when you press the button, and the logo is fetched and stripped of scripts and remote references before it is drawn.

## Questions this raises

[Deliverability checker](https://nextmail.sh/tools/deliverability.md)[DMARC record generator](https://nextmail.sh/tools/dmarc.md)[All tools](https://nextmail.sh/tools.md)