Adding AWS SSL to an external DNS

Question

I have bought a domain from an external resource and I tried to add the AWS SSL certificate into DNS as a CNAME record Although the AWS Certivicate Name starts with a ' _ ' character, when I tried to add it in DNS it gives me an error as

"Server name can be use letters hypens and dots only"

I do not have any experience regarding this and want to know if I'm doing anything wrong in DNS Validation for AWS SSL Certificate.

Answer 1

There are couple of options to solve this: 1. Use Email verification method to get the certificate, if you haven't enabled Privacy protection on the registrar, you'll get a verification email from AWS ACM and you can verify a certificate or ACM also sends verification emails to 5 different email addresses such as: administrator@your_domain_name hostmaster@your_domain_name postmaster@your_domain_name webmaster@your_domain_name admin@your_domain_name

2. Use Route53, Create a HostedZone for your domain in Route53 and use the name servers Route53 provided and use it on your current registrar. Create and transfer all the records to Route53 , you don't need to transfer the domain, just use Route53 nameservers to your current registrar.