The "Validating domain ownership" status does take a long time for me too sometimes, but it usually clears up for me, and the ownership validation is automatic

How long does it usually take for you? Last time I used a different domain host and it was quite faster

Depends on a million things. They promise within 72 hours usually.

Can you share the domain in question?

OP shared the domain privately- can confirm it's not a caching issue on their end. (For others helping)

I was thinking of waiting some more then, its been about 2 days atm. If the validation does not go through in the next 2 days or so, I will come back for more feedback. Thanks

I would highly recommend using Cloudflare as a proxy. It's completely free and offers a ton of speed improvements to your site as well as DNS caching.

It's usually instant, but there's been times where I had to leave it overnight, I've never seen it stuck in that position permanently