Change in SharePoint DNS breaking remote authentication code through office 365 login

Hi,
I have a website that connects to a SharePoint online site in order to access content from there. The authentication is done through the Office 365 login. In order to do that, I composed the following URL:
"https://login.microsoftonline.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=3&rver=6.1.6206.0&wp=MBI&wreply=https://www10226.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/landing.aspx?Source=" + window.location
so that the window.location is returned to after the authentication is done. It worked so far, but today I encountered the following problem: https://www10226.sharepoint.com now says page cannot be found, DNS lookup failed. Apparently the correct
address is now https://www10501.sharepoint.com . Does anybody know about this sort of change? Is it a one time thing or it happens on a regular basis? How can I get the right DNS dynamically so my code won't be affected by changes like this
one in the future?
Any help is highly appreciated.

Hi, Jason, and thank you for the answer.
I am not the global administrator. The problem is that I want an universal problem for any SharePoint Online site that will be accessed by the users - A link like the one above, authenticating the user to SharePoint Online via Office 365 and then returning
to my website.
I composed the URL above by simply looking at what redirects Office 365 does when I try to log in into my SharePoint Online site. At that moment I understood that wreply=https://www10226.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/landing.aspx
was an universal authentication endpoint, but then the address changed and it was https://www10501.sharepoint.com,
and currently it is https://www10706.sharepoint.com
. I am confused by these changes. Do you mean to tell me that this part www10706 is specifically only to one SharePoint Online site and that if you tried to authenticate to a different SharePoint address than mine, it wouldn't work? If so, how should
the URL be in order to achieve what I want, authentication and returning to website, having the security token attached to the request?
I came across this article http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/domains/sharepointcname.aspx, but I am unsure whether it has to do with the changes I am experiencing. I tried putting the SharePoint address inputted by the user in the wreply parameter
(such as wreply=https://www.ALIAS.sharepoint.com) but after
the authentication it just remains on the SharePoint page, without returning to my website.
Please advise, I need to find a solution to this.
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