{"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":"2026-11-03T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:40:21","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\">Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) records at Hostinger specify which certificate authorities (CAs) can issue SSL\/TLS certificates for your domain. To manage CAA records, add them from the DNS Zone Editor in Hostinger dashboard with the name, flag, tag, CA domain, and TTL values, and keep the default CAA records in place.<\/p><h2 id=\"h_f353e56027\">How to add CAA records<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If your domain is <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-pointing-to-hostinger\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1863967-how-to-point-a-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 data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-custom-ssl\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583785-how-to-install-a-custom-ssl-in-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">custom SSL<\/a>, go to your domain&rsquo;s <b><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-dns-zone-editor\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583249-how-to-manage-dns-records-at-hostinger\/\" 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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-03_15-27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1143\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-03_15-27.png 1143w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-03_15-27-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-03_15-27-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/11\/2026-11-03_15-27-768x376.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1143px) 100vw, 1143px\" \/><\/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\">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 data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-how-to-manage-dns-records-at-hostinger\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/1583249-how-to-manage-dns-records-at-hostinger\/\" 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 data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-manage-them-from-there\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"\/support\/4410887-how-to-change-dns-records-in-other-domain-registrars-at-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manage them from there<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">After you add or edit a CAA record, allow up to 24 hours for the change to <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-fully-propagate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4146975-what-is-dns-propagation-at-hostinger\/\">fully propagate<\/a>, after which the authorized CA can issue SSL certificates for your domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add or edit CAA records in Hostinger\u2019s DNS Zone Editor to control which certificate authorities can issue SSL certificates for your domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_content_updated_date":"","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-BR","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-\u044f\u043a-\u043a\u0435\u0440\u0443\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0438-\u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u043c\u0438-caa-\u043d\u0430-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":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24314,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/24314"}],"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}]}}