Polish: consider claiming + DNS-verifying a domain for the pomdtr publisher on VS Marketplace (optional, 503K installs)

[chirag127]

Polish: Consider claiming + verifying a domain for the pomdtr publisher on VS Marketplace

Current state

The pomdtr publisher on the VS Code Marketplace has the verified-publisher badge (✓) already. However, no publisher domain is claimed, so domain-level verification is unavailable.

Inspected via the marketplace API on 2026-06-30:

Publisher:        pomdtr
Display name:     pomdtr
Flags:            verified           ← publisher account verified
Domain:           (empty)            ← no domain claim
DomainVerified:   False              ← N/A without a claim
Installs:         503,834 (excalidraw-editor)

What this would add

For an extension that integrates a third-party drawing library and is installed by 500K+ users, an additional trust signal would help users evaluating supply-chain provenance.

Two complementary steps Microsoft Marketplace supports for individual maintainers:

1. Claim a domain — set a domain field on the publisher profile (any domain you control: GitHub Pages, personal site, custom domain)
2. Verify it via DNS TXT — Microsoft generates a one-time TXT record; you add it to DNS, click verify, you can remove the record afterwards

Why this is optional

Individual maintainers without a commercial domain commonly skip this — the verified-publisher badge alone is the standard trust level for solo OSS authors. So please treat this as a suggestion, not a request.

That said, if you maintain a personal site, the verification is a 5-minute step and would strengthen the supply-chain story for a 500K-install extension.

How to complete

1. Sign in to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/manage/publishers/pomdtr
2. Publisher settings → edit profile → set Domain to any domain you control
3. Domain verification → Microsoft provides a DNS TXT record
4. Add the TXT record (one-shot — removable once verified)
5. Click "Verify"

Why I'm raising this

Doing a publisher-trust audit across the extensions I use. Filed sibling polish requests at biomejs/biome#10810, foambubble/foam#1674, and yzane/vscode-markdown-pdf#440.

Reference

• VS Marketplace publisher verification: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension#establish-trust-with-your-users

Thanks for the Excalidraw integration — it's a genuinely useful diagram-in-VSCode tool. Feel free to close this if a domain claim doesn't fit your situation.