Validating Domain For AWS ACM in GoDaddy

Question

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. They have provided me the following to be used:

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

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.example.tld

Did anyone encounter this issue on GoDaddy DNS entries?

Answer 1

I would like to share with you how I figured it out.

It may not fit for all but it may help some people.

The steps are:

1. Go to your AWS account.

   Go to AWS certificate manager and Request a public certificate using DNS

After that you will have this screen:

On the Domain Name enter your domain without www For example example.com (NOT www.example.com)

After the above steps you will see this screen:

Now you have Name & Value.

Go to your Godaddy account and select the domain you have entered at the last section.

Go to the DNS section.

Create CNAME record like this:

Now is the important part...

The Host will receive the AWS certificate manager's Name, BUT just the prefix, for example:

AWS name:

_904706782abb3d16301321f28db53e03.example.com.

You should grab just this _904706782abb3d16301321f28db53e03 for godaddy's Host name. For the "points to" (on your GoDaddy account) input, you should grab the value of the AWS certificate manager. For example:

_0ba986089fff81c1b4f395a2ea75f42e.hkvuiqjoua.acm-validations.aws

By the way, the value comes with a dot at the end, GoDaddy will remove the dot at the moment you click enter. for example:

_0ba986089fff81c1b4f395a2ea75f42e.hkvuiqjoua.acm-validations.aws. will become to

_0ba986089fff81c1b4f395a2ea75f42e.hkvuiqjoua.acm-validations.aws

Finally, it should look like this:

Answer 2

The Host field should be filled with xxx (your subdomain) and the Points To field with xxx.acm-validations.aws (without dot).