Verifying three custom domains in Google Search Console with Cloudflare DNS

Before Google Search Console is useful — for indexing requests, coverage errors, or query data — you have to prove you own the domain. For three new custom domains on Astro sites, I did this in one afternoon. The fastest path was DNS TXT verification through Cloudflare, and there were a few non-obvious details worth writing down. This is a short notes post, not a full tutorial. Google and Cloudflare both have step-by-step documentation. What follows is the things that tripped me up and what the