In GoDaddy how to validate a Domain For AWS ACM

Question

They have provided me the following to be used:

Name: xxx.mydomain.com.  [Host field on GoDaddy]
Value: xxx.acm-validations.aws. [Points to field on GoDaddy]
Type: CNAME

I have requested an SSL certificate from AWS and I opted for DNS validation. Now they are asking me to add a CNAME record to validate.

Now whenever I provide this using GoDaddy DNS interface, it throws an error saying for 'Points to' field:

Enter either @ or a valid host name such as: "subdomain.domain.tld"

Did anyone encounter this issue on GoDaddy DNS entries?

Answer 1

For validate www.example.com you have to write just the first part of xxx3.www.example.com. without the domain name and without suffix dot, but including www. Like this:

TYPE: CNAME
NAME: xxx3.www
VALUE: xxx4.acm-validation.aws

You can test above configuration after some minutes with:

dig TXT +short +noshort xxx1.example.com

dig TXT +short +noshort xxx2.www.example.com

https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/acm-certificate-pending-validation/

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Comments

this helped me so much today. Thanks!