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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _authenticate(self):
 """An innocent call to check that the credentials are okay."""

        response = self._get("/v1/domains/{0}".format(self.domain))

        self.domain_id = response["domain"]["id"]