Gitlab Pages: Failed to verify domain ownership

Question

This morning I got emails for each of my Gitlab Pages that are hosted on custom domains, saying that the domain verification failed.

That\'s fine, because I don\'t think

Answer 1

For GoDaddy (April 2020), I had to do the following:

|Type |Name                           |Value                                      |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|A    |example.com (or @)             |35.185.44.232                              |
|TXT  |_gitlab-pages-verification-code|gitlab-pages-verification-code=blahblahblah|
|A    |www                            |35.185.44.232                              |
|CNAME|www.example.com                |example.gitlab.io                          |
|TXT  |_gitlab-pages-verification-code|gitlab-pages-verification-code=blahblahblah|
|     |(or _gitlab-pages.verification-|                                           |
|     |code.www)                      |                                           |

While the documentation said to use _gitlab-pages-verification-code.example.com and _gitlab-pages-verification-code.www.example.com, those did not work for me, and I could see within seconds after changing and re-checking my verification status that it changed from unverified to verified, and vice versa.