Creator program
Verify a website as a channel
Enter the URL, then prove you control the domain with a DNS TXT record, a meta tag on the home page, or a well-known file. On Cloudflare there is a one-click link to the DNS page.
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A website can be a creator channel. It carries no follower count, so it counts as a channel with unverified audience; a website alone may not be enough to be approved.
Steps
- In the Channels card of the creator portal choose Add a website and enter the address. A bare host is fine;
https://is added, and query strings and fragments are dropped. - The portal shows a verification panel with your token and three ways to place it. Pick one:
- DNS record. A TXT record at
_slopsquash.<your-host>with the token as its value. If your nameservers are Cloudflare's, the panel shows Open Cloudflare DNS, which takes you straight to the record editor for the zone. - Meta tag. A tag in the
<head>of the site's home page. Copy it from the panel. - Well-known file. A plain-text file at
/.well-known/slopsquash-verification.txtcontaining the token.
- DNS record. A TXT record at
- Choose Verify. We look up the TXT records, then fetch the home page, then the well-known file, and stop at the first match. Verification is limited to six attempts per ten minutes per website.
Once verified the website appears in the application's channel picker, labelled "audience not verified".
What we read and store
Only what is needed to find the token: the public DNS TXT records and nameservers, the home page, and the well-known file. We store the URL, its registrable host, the token, the method that succeeded, the date and result of the check, and whether the nameservers point at Cloudflare. Nothing else from the site is retained.
Keep it in place
We may re-check from time to time. If the record, tag or file is gone on a re-check, we may treat the site as no longer controlled by you. A domain can be verified by one Slop Squash account at a time.