Domain prevalidation: Revalidate your domain before validation expires
For immediate certificate issuance, keep your domain's validation current
To maintain seamless certificate issuance, don’t wait for your domain's validation to expire before you revalidate it by completing the domain control validation (DCV).
Notice
Starting September 27, 2021, the domain validation reuse period has been reduced from 825 days to 397 days.
For EV validation, you must revalidate the domain every 13 months. However, the DCV requirements for OV and EV domain validation are identical.
You can revalidate a domain at any time. This domain management feature enables you to complete the domain’s validation early so that your immediate certificate issuance process continues without interruption.
Important
If you order a certificate for a domain while the domain's revalidation is pending, we use the domain's current validation to issue the certificate.
Submit domain for revalidation
In your CertCentral account, in the left main menu, go to Certificates > Domains.
On the Domains page, click the Domain Name of the domain you want to revalidate.
On the Domain details page, in the Domain Validation section, under Submit for validation, check OV certificate validation or EV certificate validation.
In the Domain Control Validation (DCV) Method section, select the method you want to use to demonstrate control over the domain:
Verification email
DNS TXT record
DNS CNAME record
HTTP practical demonstration
Click Submit For Validation.
What's next
Use the selected DCV method to complete domain validation and demonstrate control over your domain. For more information, see Domain prevalidation: Domain control validation (DCV) methods.
Notice
After you validate the domain, both OV and EV certificate validations will show new expiration dates.
Domain prevalidation: Bulk domain revalidation
Use the bulk domain revalidation feature to submit 2 to 25 domains at a time for revalidation.
Domain validation expires in 397 days. To maintain seamless certificate issuance, DigiCert recommends completing domain control validation (DCV) ahead of time.
Important
If you order a certificate for a domain while the domain's revalidation is pending, we use the domain's current validation to issue the certificate until that validation has expired.
Submit domains for revalidation
In your CertCentral account, in the left main menu, go to Certificates > Domains.
On the Domains page, use the Validation status filter to locate the domains you want to revalidate.
Select the domains you want to submit for revalidation.
In the Submit domains for revalidation dropdown, select your preferred validation method.
Select Submit for validation.
What's next
Email method: DigiCert sends two sets of DCV emails: WHOIS-based and constructed. DCV email recipients must follow the link in the email to complete the DCV check for each domain.
CNAME method: DigiCert provides information on updating the CNAME records for your domains to enable revalidation.
DNS TXT method: DigiCert provides information on updating the DNS TXT records for your domains to enable revalidation.