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coast360.co.uk
Zero-width spaces silently corrupting the verification token
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;coast360.co.uk. IN TXT
;; ANSWER SECTION:
coast360.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "google-site-verification=fPKE6GXeDgiIg9HfxpNSXo_2aepY8tsxHmWJuEqqgmY"
What Happened
The `\226\128\139` byte sequence (UTF-8 for a Zero-Width Space character) appears inside what looks like a valid Google verification token. The likely cause: the service provider displayed the token on mobile with zero-width spaces for visual word-wrapping. The admin copied the token — invisible characters included — and the silent corruption made the verification permanently fail. A bug that's invisible by definition.
Full TXT Record Value
google-site-verification=fPKE6GXeDgiIg9HfxpNSXo_2aepY8tsxHmWJuEqqgmY