Let’s Encrypt Free Certificate Service Experiences Domain Verification Issues, Now Restored - Check Renewal Settings

The Let’s Encrypt project, which offers 90-day free HTTPS certificates, encountered a domain verification issue an hour ago, preventing the normal validation of domain validity and thus the issuance or renewal of certificates.

According to information displayed on the Let’s Encrypt Status page, the issue has now been resolved. Applications for issuance or renewal can now complete domain verification as intended.

Website owners and administrators using automatic certificate renewal should check the current certificate status to ensure the certificates are valid for a sufficient period. It is also advisable to attempt manual renewal to verify that the renewal function is working correctly.

The incident occurred on November 1st, 2024, from 02:02 to 00:43 UTC.You may want to check your certificate renewal logs to see if there were any affected entries.

Cause of the outage: Domain verification was impossible due to infrastructure issues.

To view the Let’s Encrypt Status page, please visit: https://letsencrypt.status.io/

The historical record of this incident can be found here: https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/history/55957a99e800baa4470002da