Yandex Remove WHOIS Email From Access Right Verification Docs

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In a small change made to Yandex’s Webmaster Help documentation, they have removed the previously supported (although not recommended) verification method of verifying site rights.

If this is a method that you’ve previously used, you may find verification issues in the coming days and will need to update to verifying through one of the following methods:

  • Meta tag on the home page
  • HTML file in the root directory
  • TXT record in the DNS

On a lighter note, Yandex have also renamed this document “Access rights”, previously “Permissions”.