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Four more dns.TXT verification tokens below the ten-link bar: Dell Technologies, Gather, Mosyle, CAF #279

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@cristianovisk

Four further providers have self-identifying dns.TXT verification tokens, but each was
observed on too few domains in my corpus to meet the ten-link bar in CONTRIBUTING.md, so I am
raising them here rather than in a pull request.

Corpus: 6128 TXT records from 178 mutually independent apex domains, resolver 1.1.1.1. Zero false
positives for all four patterns.

Proposed technology dns.TXT pattern Domains Suggested cats
Dell Technologies dell-technologies-domain-verification= 4 19 Miscellaneous
Gather gather-domain-verification= 3 19 Miscellaneous
Mosyle ^Mosyle-verification-\d+$ 1 16 Security
CAF caf-verification= 1 69 Authentication

Observed domains, and one real sample value each:

  • Dell Technologies — adyen.com, amazon.com, ifood.com.br, nytimes.com
    dell-technologies-domain-verification=adyen.com_b9f0f1e6-c2c4-4520-9df4-ff8fe040826b_17351…
    
  • Gather — ifood.com.br, twilio.com, vercel.com
    gather-domain-verification=de75674f-d865-405f-95c1-7d98f3100701
    
  • Mosyle — ifood.com.br
    Mosyle-verification-1743799440
    
  • CAF — ifood.com.br
    caf-verification=370f18bb383afa1e4ebf2eaf5c6ebaf73d2bc7364f91541528466798b3111acf
    

Two questions for maintainers:

  1. Is the ten-link rule a hard bar for dns.TXT fingerprints specifically? A verification token is
    self-identifying in a way a scriptSrc pattern is not, and measured on this same corpus the
    catalog already carries loom-verification (4 domains),
    windsurf-verification= (4) and
    heroku-domain-verification (0).
  2. If you would rather see wider corroboration first, I am happy to extend the corpus and come back
    with a pull request for whichever of these clear the bar.

Note: Mosyle uses a - separator rather than =, hence the anchored form ^Mosyle-verification-\d+$.

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