How to add a TXT record to your DNS referencing Sonatype JIRA Ticket on AWS Route53?

Question

Recently I wanted to add my jar to Maven Central Repository. I have raised a ticket to the community.

They wanted to verify whether I'm the owner of the domain. So I was doing this activity. They asked me to

"Add a TXT record to your DNS referencing this JIRA ticket: << Jira Link>>"

Go to AWS Route 53 Hosted Zone page Select your domain and add a TXT record with the value as your Ticket link.

Now fire below command to verify.

dig -t txt << domain name >>

Eg: dig -t txt example.com

Answer 1

1. Go to your DNS provider of choice and add a TXT record containing the id (ex: OSSRH-XXXX) of the jira ticket.
2. Wait until Search Engines index it. You can check your TXT record on free site https://dnslookup.online/txt.html
3. After that in issue comment ask for someone from Sonatype to reply.

If everything is Ok, you will get an answer with a list of next steps

Answer 2

cosic's answer is ambiguous because "add a TXT record containing the id" could mean adding the URL of the JIRA ticket, or just the ticket number.

To be perfectly clear, add the complete URL to the Sonatype JIRA ticket. How to add a TXT record depends on your provider; here is the link for Namecheap. If there’s an option to put in a custom TTL, put 7 days; if not, leave it at automatic.

Then run dig -t TXT com.mydomain, and in the ANSWER SECTION, you should see a line referencing the JIRA ticket. It may take some time for the change to propagate through the DNS servers.

;; ANSWER SECTION:
com.mydomain.       1798    IN  TXT "https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/OSSRH-xxx"

Comment in the Sonatype ticket with the output.