The badge says one thing: the business proved it controls the domain it is listed under, by publishing a DNS record we specify. It is issued on that domain's record page. It is not a rating, not a recommendation, and not an endorsement of any transaction; we never take part in one. The badge is free, it cannot be bought, and it can be withdrawn: it stays valid only while the record page it points to shows the claim as current, with a date.
The file is served in two versions so it stays legible on a light or a dark page. Neither file is the proof of anything by itself; the record page is.
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What does the badge actually mean?
It means one thing only: the business proved it controls the domain it is listed under, by publishing a DNS TXT record with the exact value we specified. We read that record from public DNS, and where it is present the claim is shown as domain-verified on the record page for that domain. It says nothing about the business, its goods, its prices or its conduct. It says only that whoever made the claim could edit DNS for that name.
What does the badge not mean?
It is not a recommendation, not a rating and not a grade, and it is not a statement about how a purchase will turn out. We do not sell watches, we take no payment and we are never part of a transaction between a buyer and a seller, so there is nothing for us to vouch for. A domain-verified mark never means a business was checked for honesty, quality or speed, and it never appears because someone paid.
| What the badge is | What it is not |
|---|---|
| Proof that a business controls a domain | A judgement about that business |
| Free and open to every business, on the same terms | A paid placement or a grade |
| Revocable, and dated on the record page | A permanent certificate |
| Kept in a separate system from advertising | A route to buying a link |
How does a seller get the badge?
By proving control of the domain. The seller publishes the TXT record we specify, we read it from public DNS, and the claim on that domain's record page is marked as domain-verified. It is free and it stays free: no position, no grade and no link is sold, and paying is never a route to it. Every business is offered the same step on the same terms, including any business connected to the operator of this site.
How does a badge stop being valid?
The mark is revocable. It stops being valid when the domain changes hands, when the claim lapses, when the record page is corrected, and when a dispute about the claim is open and unresolved. The badge is only meaningful while the record page it points to shows the claim as current, so a saved image or an old screenshot proves nothing on its own; the page is the record.
How do I check a badge myself?
Click the badge. It leads to the record page for the domain that carries the claim, and the state and the date are shown there. If a badge image sits on a site but leads nowhere, or leads to a page that does not show the claim as current, treat it as decoration. The image file is never the proof (anyone can copy a picture), so the record page is the only thing worth reading.
How does a seller embed the badge?
A verified seller is sent the one URL that belongs to its own claim, together with a short piece of HTML to paste into its own pages. That link must point at that seller's own record page; a placeholder or a borrowed URL is not accepted, and a badge that does not lead to the matching record page is not the badge. The mark is served by us, so it can be withdrawn when the claim stops being valid.
A verified seller receives the URL of its own record page and the snippet below, with that URL in place of the placeholder. The placeholder shown here is not a working link and should never be used as one.
<a href="https://repdb.io/sellers/<domain-slug>/"><img src="https://repdb.io/badge/verified.svg" width="180" height="56" alt="Domain-verified claim by repdb.io" loading="lazy"></a>The mark follows the claim: when a claim stops being valid we withdraw the right to use it, and the record page the badge points to shows that the claim is no longer current. A saved copy of the image proves nothing on its own; the record page is the record.
Why is this not a link-exchange scheme?
Because nothing is traded. The badge is free, it can be checked against public DNS, and it can be revoked, so it cannot work as a bought link. It is kept apart from any advertising slot, and it never changes what a page says: no sentence is added, softened or removed in exchange for a link, and we do not bend what a reader sees to obtain one.
Are the record pages live yet?
Not all of them. Record pages are published one by one as claims are verified, so the directory is in preparation rather than open, and this page makes no promise about how fast that will be. There is no waiting list and no fee: a badge appears when a claim is verified and the matching record page is published, and the badge links to that page.
What does a seller agree to when its claim is verified?
Collection is limited to the public pages of the domain that made the claim: product listings, catalogue data including any public JSON the site serves, asking prices, and the shipping, returns and warranty wording it publishes. We read those with automated tools, which may include AI-assisted extraction, and we keep dated snapshots so a record can be compared over time. We never collect customer or order data and never touch login-protected or private areas. Re-checking follows our refresh cycle, and the review date shown on the record page is the date of the last check; removing the DNS record stops collection for that domain and the claim stops being current. Publishing the record means the business accepts these terms, version claim-terms-v1 of 2026-10-01.
Reviewed 2026-10-01. See scoring rules (what is described about a seller, and what can never be bought), complaints and corrections (how a record is challenged) and advertising (the only thing that could ever be paid for).