February 22, 2006
Potential New Verification Process in Google Sitemaps
section. This is the best method Google could come up with to prove site ownership without requiring the ability to rename files, as some systems are restrictive and do not allow this.
The unique string would be a base-64 encoded SHA-256 hash of a string that is composed of the email address of the owner of the site (for instance, admin@google.com) and the domain name of the site (for instance, google.com).
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