Verified opt-in

Verify your domain — in or out

Publication about a named third party requires verified domain-owner opt-in; there is no other route in. Leaving uses the same record, is free, and is permanent.

I can’t edit DNS records — request removal anyway

An unverified request still works: it triggers suppression pending review, because a person exercising erasure against a personal-name domain cannot be made to prove DNS control first. The suppression takes effect immediately.

The rules

Four things this page holds

One record, both directions

The TXT record that verifies your domain in is the same record that removes it. Publish it once; which button you press decides what it means.

Why DNS, and not a meta tag

A TXT record proves control of the domain rather than control of one page. A meta tag on a single URL is satisfiable by anyone who can publish one file to a subpath.

No account, no payment, ever

Verification is about who controls the domain and nothing else. Listing is not for sale, and neither is removal — the moment either has a price, the index is a shakedown with a methodology page.

What gets published

Only scans taken from a third-party vantage — the public scanner and the index crawler. Nothing derived from an authenticated, merchant-sourced, or locally-run scan is ever published, whatever its score.

How verification and removal work · The readable web · Scan a URL first · Our scanner and crawler