> The number of users who use Webmaster Tools isn't all that vast as you
> seem to think it is.

> To put it simply if it had been, we'd be seeing a lot more of them
> with all kinds of problems and gripes here.

> We do see lots, but there have been maybe only 2-3 dozen with
> verification problems of this specific type.

> People have verification problems all the time, typically it's all due
> to numerous problems with their websites: misconfigured servers,
> inability to upload files or modify source code, you name it. You
> cannot blame those problems on Google in your wildest dreams.

> The last couple of days however there have been a bunch of problems
> reported as DNS errors. And most of them indeed turned out to be
> actual DNS problems their websites have. All but 1 or 2 that is.

> So I offer the possible explanation that Google must be checking dns
> more closely lately, probably in order to solve other problems, like
> maybe to weed out cloaking, proxies, who knows what.

> For my sites I have 2 problems currently: a nightly period of extreme
> slowness for my server dues to backups and other draining processes,
> so any verification that happens to be attempted at the time will
> fail; and a small DNS problem I have acquired with one of my 4
> nameservers being lame.  This means that it's possible that 1 in 4
> attempts may result in an access problem to my sites.

> But because I know of those problems and their possible effects, I
> don't panic. And I work towards solving them with my hoster. The lame
> nameserver will need changing. The slowdowns due to backups are a bit
> tougher to fix. I can live with it.

> On Mar 28, 7:31 pm, $e0Guy wrote:

> > Webado,

> > On Mar 28, 4:00 pm, webado wrote:

> > > I haven't heard of  thousands or tens of thousands of users with this
> > > problem.

> > RIGHT!  If most people who use the Webmaster Tools system don't know
> > to check the forums, which most do NOT, and the Google "Message" tab
> > on the Tools Dashboard says "no messages", then of course you wouldn't
> > have heard of tens of thousands with the problem.

> > Have you looked through all of the Googles Groups?  There are dozens
> > of other threads from users all over the place who are reporting the
> > problem who don't know or think to use this specific group forum.

> > And as for the vast majority of people having this problem have it NOT
> > be a Google issue - I don't buy that for a second.  The odds of such a
> > coincidence - people all over the world, all of a sudden, over the
> > past four days, having the exact same problem, and oh, by the way, at
> > the same exact time, Google's got a code issue that just happens to be
> > the cause of this problem for a tiny fraction of us?

> > You are kidding right?