Try to request an SSL Certificate for a domain name i bought with Route 53 never validates

Question

Try to request an SSL Certificate for a domain name i bought with Route 53 but ACM never validates via DNS validation but I look in Route 53 and it shows hosted zone with correct url ???.com

What am i missing?

AWS-User-3977640 · Accepted Answer

Hey, Please check this document to Troubleshoot DNS validation problems- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/troubleshooting-DNS-validation.html

Steve_M · Answer

AWS Certificate Manager needs to prove you own the domain that the certifcate is being issued for, and so it will request the creation of a CNAME record name that's a random string like _a79865eb4cd1a6ab990a45779b4e0b96.[your_domain].com. with a record value of _424c7224e9b0146f9a8808af955727d0.acm-validations.aws.

If Route 53 is your registrar then this can all be done automatically, you need to select the certificate in AWS Console ( from what you say above it should have a status of *Pending validation*) and click on **Create records in Route 53**.

Now is this record there when you look at the hosted zone in Route 53, and is your certificate now validated?

Try to request an SSL Certificate for a domain name i bought with Route 53 never validates

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