Unpause link rejected after certificate rate limit
Let's Encrypt rate-limit unpause link is rejected by the portal, so a blocked account cannot resume certificate issuance.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
15 public reports · first reported 23 October 2026 · last reported 29 October 2026
What's going wrong
After hitting a rate limit, some Certbot users receive an unpause link that the Let's Encrypt portal rejects as invalid, even after copying it from the log.
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