{"id":985,"date":"2022-02-03T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/02\/03\/5950464-how-to-manage-caa-records-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:09","slug":"5950464-how-to-manage-caa-records-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5950464-how-to-manage-caa-records-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manage CAA Records at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) records are a type of DNS record used by SSL certificates to indicate which certificate authorities can issue SSL\/TLS certificates for your domain.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_f353e56027\">How to add CAA records<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If your domain is <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1863967-how-to-point-domain-to-hostinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointing to Hostinger<\/a> by nameservers and you need additional CAA records &ndash; for example, to install a <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583785-how-to-install-a-custom-ssl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">custom SSL<\/a>, go to your domain&rsquo;s <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583249-how-can-i-manage-my-dns-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DNS Zone Editor<\/a><\/b>, scroll to the <b>Manage DNS records<\/b> area, and choose <b>CAA<\/b> on the type of record:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/02\/821dbd36-3e5a-40e6-b423-3102c9b8e1c5.jpg\"><\/div><h3 id=\"h_a3c16834e7\">Which values to use?<\/h3><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Name<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">For your domain, insert <b>@<\/b> as Name<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">For subdomains, insert the subdomain&rsquo;s name, eg. if you have a subdomain <i>store.domain.tld, <\/i>use <i>store<\/i> as name<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Flag<\/b> &ndash; the default value is 0. If you use 1, it can block the validation in case the tag is unknown by the Certificate Authority (CA)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Tag<\/b> &ndash; you can choose from the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">issue: The CA is authorized to provide a certificate for this domain<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">issuewild: the CA can issue wildcard certificates for this domain<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">iodef: URL that the CA can use to send an error message<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>CA domain<\/b> &ndash; specify the Certificate Authority. Both the tag and the CA domain should be provided by your certificate issuer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>TTL <\/b>&ndash; the default value is 14400 seconds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h_691b7e4a96\">How to edit or delete CAA records<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">It is recommended to keep all the default CAA records and <b>not delete them<\/b>, as it can prevent the SSL to install successfully. To edit or delete a CAA record:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">For domains pointing to Hostinger by NS records &ndash; check this article: <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583249-how-to-manage-my-dns-records-on-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to manage DNS records at Hostinger<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If your domain is pointing elsewhere by NS records, go to your domain&rsquo;s <b>DNS Zone<\/b> <b>management<\/b> on the provider you pointed the domain to and <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4410887-dns-record-changes-in-other-registrars-hosting-providers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manage them from there<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">After applying any changes to your DNS zone, consider <b>up to 24 hours<\/b> to <a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fully propagate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding new CAA records and managing already created CAA records at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dns-zone-management-at-hostinger"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5950464-how-to-manage-caa-records-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5950464-como-gestionar-los-registros-caa-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5950464-comment-gerer-les-enregistrements-caa-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5950464-cara-mengatur-caa-record-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5950464-como-gerenciar-os-registros-caa-na-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5950464----caa--hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}