Yeah, it's really easy to prove you have a valid request on the internet, if the real people are processing your request. When I assumed some website would like

Yeah, it's really easy to prove you have a valid request on the internet, if the real people are processing your request. When I assumed some website would liked more verification that I actually owned the domain before asking for removal, I just put the text into a file hosted on the domain, and there was no problem. But that requires having people process your request and having un-structured request medium, like accepting e-mails on some preferred address. And it looks like google liks to avoid having an unstructured input from random plebes, presumably to avoid expensive human labor.