Claim a custom-domain namespace in the MCP Registry with HTTP well-known authentication
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Documented steps
Use this instead of DNS TXT when you can deploy files to the domain faster than you can change DNS. It grants the same com.example.*/* namespace. Ref: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/registry/authentication
Generate a key pair: `openssl genpkey -algorithm Ed25519 -out key.pem` (or EC secp384r1 for P-384).
Host it at exactly https://example.com/.well-known/mcp-registry-auth and confirm with `curl -sS https://example.com/.well-known/mcp-registry-auth` that the raw line is returned.
KMS variants exist: `mcp-publisher login http google-kms --domain=... --resource=...` and `mcp-publisher login http azure-key-vault --domain=... --vault ... --key ...`; run once to print the expected proof line to host.
Set server.json `name` to the reverse-DNS namespace and publish.
Known gotchas
The file body is the bare `v=MCPv1; k=...; p=...` line — no quotes and no 'IN TXT' wrapper (that form is DNS-only).
Serve it as plain text over HTTPS with a 200. A framework that returns an HTML 404 page, a redirect to a login wall, or a Cloudflare challenge will fail verification.
Static-site hosts sometimes strip or rewrite /.well-known/ — verify with curl from outside your network, not from a local dev server.
Same key-hygiene rules as DNS auth: the private key is a namespace credential; prefer the KMS backends in CI.
Edge caching can serve a stale proof file after key rotation — purge the cache before rotating.
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