Greetings John,
Finally!!! You got the answer i was searching for so aggressively. Awesome, it worked (code generated using google service) with the DNS name. However, previously i had tried public ip once but the code was not generated. Anyways, ill try that again, i think it should work too.
We could not use Tiny url service as our Afaria prod server is hosted in KSA at client site. Tiny url site is banned in KSA and the test would always fail when enabling this service in Afaria.
And Yes John, an incident was created for this issue before raising the concern here in community. Now i guess, ill have to update the ticket with the solution 
Thanks a lot John and thank you Keith for engaging in this for the solution.
Best Regards
Sajan Mathew