Alternative Methods of Domain Control Validation (DCV)

All Comodo certificates must pass through DCV (Domain Control Validation) before they are issued. DCV is a mechanism used to prove ownership or control of a registered domain name.

There are 3 mechanisms for DCV:

eMail-based DCV (Traditional)
You will be sent an email to an administrative contact for your domain. The email will contain a unique validation code and link. Clicking the link and entering the code will prove domain control.

Valid email addresses are:
Any email address which our system can scrape from a port 43 whois check;

The following generic admin type email addresses @ the domain for which the certificate is being applied:
admin@
administrator@
postmaster@
hostmaster@
webmaster@

DNS CNAME-based
The CSR you submit to Comodo will be hashed. The hash values are provided to you and must be entered as a DNS CNAME record for your domain.

The hashes are to be entered as follows:

<Value of MD5 hash of CSR>.yourdomain.com. CNAME <value of SHA1 hash of CSR>.comodoca.com.


Note: Please take notice the trailing period/fullstop at the tail end of each of the TLDs as this is required to make the entry fully-qualified.

Note2: yourdomain.com in the example above (and below in the HTTP(S) method instructions) means the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) contained in the certificate. If you are ordering a MDC or UCC certificate, separate CNAME records must be created for EACH FQDN in your order.

Examples:
<Value of MD5 hash of CSR>.subdomain1.yourdomain.com. CNAME <value of SHA1 hash of CSR>.comodoca.com.
<Value of MD5 hash of CSR>.subdomain2.yourdomain.com. CNAME <value of SHA1 has of CSR>.comodoca.com.

HTTP(S)-based DCV
The CSR you submit to Comodo will be hashed. The hash values are provided to you and you must create a simple plain-text file and place this in the root of your webserver and served over HTTP-only!

The file and it's content should be as follows:
http://yourdomain.com/<Upper case value of MD5 hash of CSR>.txt

Content (as a plain text file):

<Value of SHA1 hash of CSR>
comodoca.com

Note: The DCV will fail if any redirection is in place.

Note 2: yourdomain.com in the example above (and in the CNAME method instructions; above) means the Fully Qualifed Domain Name (FQDN) contained in the certificate. If you are ordering a MDC or UCC, each FQDN in the certificate MUST have the TXT file in place in its root folder.

Examples:
subdomain1.yourdomain.com/<Value of MD5 hash of CSR>.txt
subdomain2.yourdomain.com/<Value of MD5 hash of CSR>.txt

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