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After transferring a domain from another registrar to AWS, I can't get it verified in the Certificate Manager. I created a hosted zone, the CNAME records created by the Certificate Manager are there, I tried with the DNS tester - the records seem good. However it still says "pending validation". I tried a few times, waited a couple of days and it doesn't seem it will work.

I'm totally out of ideas, any help?

mtk
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Nikolay Dyankov
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DNS validation require 2 things to be setup correctly. Record Name and Record Value Check if you're correctly setting these in Route53. Reference Doc here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/dns-validation.html

Now 2 issues which are very common

  1. In the Record Name part confirm that you're not adding your domain name in the value. _X is the only part you have to copy-paste. If you copy _X.YourDomain then 'YourDomain' part is duplicated
  2. Record Value ends with . (a period / dot). Don't remove that period

You can verify the settings from https://mxtoolbox.com/ it has various configurations like A record, CNAME, DNS Validation, etc.

Hussain Mansoor
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  • Thanks for the answer, the problem was that I had nameservers pointing to DigitalOcean, instead of my hosted zone on Route 53. Silly, I know. – Nikolay Dyankov Jan 29 '22 at 07:41