CNAME

If you use DigiCert as your Certificate Authority (CA), you can complete DCV with a special CNAME record.

Caution

With the upcoming change to certificates issued by DigiCert, CNAME DCV will soon be unsupported.

Since this method is only available using the API, you need to make a POST request and set a "method":"cname" parameter.

Within the ssl object in the response, refer to the values present in the validation_records array. Each record will contain a property for cname and cname_target (you can also access these values in the dashboard by clicking that specific hostname certificate). Provide these values to your customer so they can add a CNAME record at their authoritative DNS provider.

If you would like to request an immediate recheck, rather than wait for the next retry, send a PATCH request with the same values as your initial POST request.