Google Search Console: The 6-hour DNS dance

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🩺 Summary

How do you verify a domain on GSC when your DNS provider has 6-hour propagation? You don't. You sit there refreshing. Add a TXT record. Wait. Nothing. Triple-check. Nothing. 6 hours later Google says Verified. You feel only emptiness.

📝 Details

Cheap DNS free tier has slow propagation. GSC requires TXT record to resolve globally. Also www vs non-www require separate verification.
Use nginx location block to serve GSC HTML verification file directly. Skip the DNS wait entirely.