Site owners

Verify you own a site

Prove you control a domain with a DNS record or a file. Corrections you send from the same address are then marked as coming from the site’s owner, and reviewed first, and while the record or file stays in place the site’s result page and badge say Verified owner.

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We look only for the record or file, using our scanner’s name. The address is kept to recognise your corrections, and never shown. Privacy

What “Verified owner” means

Whoever verified the domain could publish a DNS record or a file on it: they control the site. That is all it says. It doesn’t say the site is safe, honest or made without AI; we check none of that when we verify.

It shows on the site’s result page and on the card style of its badge while the record or file stays in place. We look for it again regularly, and the date shown is the last time we found it. If we haven’t found it for 14 days, the mark goes, and the owner verifies again to bring it back. When a domain changes hands, the old proof usually goes with the old site, and a new owner who finds our record or file can remove it: either way, the mark goes.