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CAA record

Which certificate authorities may issue for this domain. A DNS policy, not a certificate.

CAA lets a domain list which CAs are authorised to issue certificates for it. CAs are required to check it before issue. The usual tags are issue, issuewild, and iodef.

CAA is not a substitute for monitoring what was actually issued. It does nothing to a certificate that already exists. A missing CAA means any CA may issue.

See also: DNS, Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Fact source: IETF RFC 8659, CAA.