The benefits of verifying your domain for GitHub Pages
I have been running madebynathan.com on GitHub Pages since 2010, and ndbroadbent.com for years after that. In all that time I never verified either domain. I did not know I was supposed to. The custom domain worked, the site was up, and nothing ever complained. Then I set up this blog, went looking for the correct way to attach a domain, and found a settings page I had never opened. What verification actually protects you from GitHub Pages works out which repository to serve by matching the Host header of the request against whichever repo has claimed that custom domain. Your DNS points at GitHub. GitHub looks up who owns the name. ...