# Can't verify DNS ownership on Google Search Console

**URL:** https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-verify-dns-ownership-on-google-search-console/72126
**Category:** Hosting Support
**Created:** [February 8, 2023, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-verify-dns-ownership-on-google-search-console/72126 "2023-02-08T20:59:39Z")
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### Author: ![Oxy](https://forum.infinityfree.com/user_avatar/forum.infinityfree.com/oxy/32/37989_2.png) [@Oxy](https://forum.infinityfree.com/u/Oxy)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/cant-verify-dns-ownership-on-google-search-console/72126/3 "2023-02-08T21:44:15Z")

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It should work if you chose the right way in the beginning (on Google)  
and if your “address” is not made recently (younger than 1 day),  
because it takes time for DNS propagation…then even Google is not able to retrieve the address (domain or free subdomain).

> [@How to verify your website in Google Search Console](https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/49351):
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> Google Search Console is a useful tool to help you learn about how your website is being crawled by Google and change settings as to how Google indexes your website. To view this information, you need to sign up to Google Search Console and add your website to it. Whether to use a URL-prefix property or Domain property Google Search Console has two ways to add a website: you can use a URL-prefix property or Domain property. The domain property is most powerful. However, in order to verify you…

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