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Verify your own domain
If you have your own website, this is often the strongest handle to verify — and it’s the one that doesn’t depend on any social platform. There are two ways to do it and either one works.
- Add your site. On Edit profile, put your URL in the Website row and press Save handles. You can type example.com or a full URL — we strip www. and any path, so everything points at your root domain.
- Press Verify to see your personal code, then pick one of the two options below.
Option 1 — a DNS TXT record (most reliable)
In your DNS provider, add:
Host @ (or example.com) Type TXT Value sponsoredby-verify=your-code-hereOption 2 — a meta tag
Add this inside the <head> of your homepage:
<meta name="sponsoredby-verify" content="your-code-here">- Press Verify. We check DNS first, then the meta tag. DNS can take a few minutes to propagate, so if it doesn’t work immediately, wait and try again.
If your site redirects to www: we always check the root domain, so a homepage that redirects example.com to www.example.com will fail the meta-tag check. Use the DNS record instead — it works either way.
Your code is permanent, so it’s safe to leave the record in place. We never ask for and never store your domain credentials.
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