babybeauandco.co.uk

Raw HTML meta tag for Facebook verification in DNS

$ dig TXT babybeauandco.co.uk

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;babybeauandco.co.uk. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:

babybeauandco.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "<meta name="facebook-domain-verification" content="abc123xyz789def456" />"

What Happened

Facebook's domain verification instructions say "add this meta tag to your site's <head>". The admin instead pasted the raw `<meta name="facebook-domain-verification" content="..." />` HTML tag directly into their DNS TXT field. The DNS resolver dutifully returned the HTML tag to anyone who queried it — Facebook's crawler, however, never saw it.

Full TXT Record Value

<meta name="facebook-domain-verification" content="abc123xyz789def456" />