> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.adcontextprotocol.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Claim a domain for bind-on-verify

> Issue a pending domain claim for the caller's organization and return a claim-specific `authoritative_location` URL (`…/adagents.json?adcp_claim=<token>`). The caller places that single pointer at their own origin `/.well-known/adagents.json`; a subsequent verify-origin reads the token and binds the domain to the caller's org. The token is the per-account artifact that proves WHICH account owns the domain — a plain domain-keyed pointer proves only that the origin endorses AAO hosting, not who the owner is.

The community write surface stays open; this does not gate writes — it establishes ownership on successful verification. Refused with 409 only when the domain is already verified and locked to a different owner.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /static/openapi/registry.yaml post /api/properties/hosted/{domain}/claim
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: AgenticAdvertising.org Registry API
  description: >-
    REST API for the AgenticAdvertising.org registry. Resolve brands,

    discover properties, look up agents, and validate authorization in the

    AdCP ecosystem.


    Most endpoints are public and require no authentication. Endpoints marked

    with a lock icon accept either an organization API key or a user JWT

    obtained via the OAuth 2.1 flow — see
    [Authentication](https://agenticadvertising.org/docs/registry/index#authentication).


    **Base URL:** `https://agenticadvertising.org`
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: AgenticAdvertising.org
    url: https://agenticadvertising.org
servers:
  - url: https://agenticadvertising.org
    description: Production
security: []
tags:
  - name: Onboarding
    description: >-
      Explicitly bootstrap a third-party integration into the AAO registry. Most
      callers don't need this tag — `POST /api/me/agents` auto-creates the org
      (for fresh users) and the member profile (for first-time agent
      registration) without a separate round trip. Use `POST /api/organizations`
      only when you need to override the auto-derived org name / company_type /
      revenue_tier. Tier transitions happen via the billing flow only; the
      Stripe webhook is the sole writer of `organizations.membership_tier`.
  - name: Member Agents
    description: >-
      Register, list, update, and remove agents on the caller's organization
      member profile. Authenticated programmatic surface for CI / scripts that
      don't want to round-trip the full member profile.
  - name: Brand Resolution
    description: Resolve advertiser domains to canonical brand identities.
  - name: Property Resolution
    description: >-
      Resolve publisher domains to their property configurations and authorized
      agents.
  - name: Agent Discovery
    description: >-
      Browse the federated agent network, search agent inventory profiles,
      publisher index, and registry statistics.
  - name: Change Feed
    description: Poll cursor-based registry change events for local sync.
  - name: Lookups & Authorization
    description: >-
      Look up agents by domain or property, and validate ad-serving
      authorization.
  - name: Validation Tools
    description: >-
      Validate publisher adagents.json files and generate compliant
      configurations.
  - name: Community Mirrors
    description: >-
      Publish, fetch, list, and retire catalog-only adagents.json mirrors for
      platforms that have not adopted AdCP.
  - name: Search
    description: Cross-entity search across brands, publishers, agents, and properties.
  - name: Agent Probing
    description: >-
      Connect to live agents and inspect their capabilities, formats, and
      inventory.
  - name: Brand Discovery
    description: Discover and crawl brand.json files across domains.
  - name: Agent Compliance
    description: Agent compliance status, storyboard test results, and compliance history.
  - name: Policy Registry
    description: >-
      Browse, resolve, and contribute governance policies for campaign
      compliance.
paths:
  /api/properties/hosted/{domain}/claim:
    post:
      tags:
        - Property Resolution
      summary: Claim a domain for bind-on-verify
      description: >-
        Issue a pending domain claim for the caller's organization and return a
        claim-specific `authoritative_location` URL
        (`…/adagents.json?adcp_claim=<token>`). The caller places that single
        pointer at their own origin `/.well-known/adagents.json`; a subsequent
        verify-origin reads the token and binds the domain to the caller's org.
        The token is the per-account artifact that proves WHICH account owns the
        domain — a plain domain-keyed pointer proves only that the origin
        endorses AAO hosting, not who the owner is.


        The community write surface stays open; this does not gate writes — it
        establishes ownership on successful verification. Refused with 409 only
        when the domain is already verified and locked to a different owner.
      operationId: claimHostedPropertyDomain
      parameters:
        - schema:
            type: string
            example: examplepub.com
          required: true
          name: domain
          in: path
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Claim issued
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  success:
                    type: boolean
                    enum:
                      - true
                  domain:
                    type: string
                  authoritative_location:
                    type: string
                  instructions:
                    type: string
                required:
                  - success
                  - domain
                  - authoritative_location
                  - instructions
        '400':
          description: Invalid domain
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Authentication required
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '403':
          description: Caller is not a member of any organization
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '409':
          description: Domain already verified and locked to another owner
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      security:
        - bearerAuth: []
        - oauth2: []
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
      required:
        - error
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        Bearer token in the `Authorization` header. Two token types are
        accepted:


        - **Organization API key** (`sk_...`) issued via the dashboard.
        Org-scoped, long-lived, for server-to-server use.

        - **User JWT** obtained via the OAuth 2.1 authorization code flow with
        PKCE. User-scoped, short-lived. Discover the authorization server at
        `/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` and the protected-resource
        metadata at `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api`.
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: >-
        OAuth 2.1 authorization code flow with PKCE. Users authenticate via
        AuthKit and clients receive a Bearer JWT that authorizes both the MCP
        endpoint and this REST API. Dynamic client registration is supported at
        `/register`.
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://agenticadvertising.org/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://agenticadvertising.org/token
          refreshUrl: https://agenticadvertising.org/token
          scopes:
            openid: User identifier
            profile: User profile information
            email: User email address

````