Add a Verified Badge to your GitHub Organization

Luis Guerrero
3 min readMay 21, 2020

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Your organization’s GitHub page is an excellent way to show the world the quality of the software your company produces, this can help you to land more contracts or to attract new talent.

To give people visiting your page more confidence that they are actually seeing your GitHub page, you can verify the domains controlled by your organization to confirm your organization’s identity on GitHub, this will add a Verified badge at the top of your page.

To do this you will need owner permissions in your organization and be able to add DNS records with your domain hosting service.

Steps

Go to github.com/YourOrganizationName and click Settings

You need owner permissions to see the Settings menu

In the sidebar click Verified Domains

Click Add a domain

You will need to add the domains used in the URL and Email of your profile in order to get the Verified badge. If they are the same you just need to add one.

In this case, we only need to add github.com domain

Type the domain you want to verify in the domain field and click Add domain

Follow the instructions under Add a DNS TXT record to create a DNS TXT record with your domain hosting service.

The tricky part here is that in step 1, we are given the value _github-challenge-github.github.com to add as a name of our TXT record when in reality we should add only _github-challenge-github

This is because most hosting providers add the domain part in the end. Some of them even trim it in case you add it accidentally, but some others not. To be safe make sure you remove it.

After adding the record and verifying that has propagated, click Verify domain

If everything goes well, you will see your domain listed with a Verified badge in the Verified domains page

And your organization page will present the Verified badge

GitHub Verified badge

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Luis Guerrero
Luis Guerrero

Written by Luis Guerrero

Product-focused Software Engineer with more than 13 years of experience delivering top-quality software for world-class companies. React JS/TS advocate.

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