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HTTP and DNS verification fail with API errors

HTTP and DNS domain verification keeps failing with Let's Encrypt API errors and no clear reason why.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

9 public reports · first reported 7 April 2022 · last reported 16 February 2025

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Many owners of this WordPress SSL plugin cannot finish domain verification, whether by uploading a file over HTTP or adding a DNS text record.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 9 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.