(Optional) Configure email for your domain - Amazon Certificate Manager
WHOIS database
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(Optional) Configure email for your domain

Note

The following steps are required only if you use email validation to assert that you own or control the FQDN (fully qualified domain name) specified in your certificate request. ACM requires that you validate ownership or control before it issues a certificate. You can use either email validation or DNS validation. For more information about email validation, see Email validation.

If you are able to edit your DNS configuration, we recommend that you use DNS domain validation rather than email validation. DNS validation removes the need to configure email for the domain name. For more information about DNS validation, see DNS validation.

WHOIS database

The WHOIS database contains contact information for your domain. To validate your identity, ACM sends an email to the following three addresses in WHOIS. You must make sure that your contact information is public or that email that is sent to an obfuscated address is forwarded to your real email address.

  • Domain registrant

  • Technical contact

  • Administrative contact