Notice to GoDaddy Users: GoDaddy DNS API will no longer work for customers will less than 10 domains.

[webprofusion-chrisc]

As per the following issues, GoDaddy have changed their API and it will reject operations for users with less than 10 domains managed on GoDaddy. If you have a problem with GoDaddy speak to their support. This is not a bug in acme.sh or any other ACME client.

#5181
#4487
#5178
Etc.

From GoDaddy Support:

[rossta0825]

Interesting to note as a GoDaddy user who spent days trying to debug why I could not get a new certificate to issue with acme.sh - although the GoDaddy API was giving an error of Not Authorized, it was actually allowing the TXT records to be added. This really threw me off because I could see the required TXT record being added and yet the script was failing. The script was also not respecting the --dnssleep parameter so I was focused on how to get it to wait longer for the TXT record to propagate. But, I think acme.sh had already decided it had failed even though it continued to issue commands and report through the --debug 2 option.

I have 2 different accounts with 6 domains in each that GoDaddy will be seeing go away due to this.

[alanialgor]

OMG, This is exactly what I am going through. Been Banging my head for weeks. Off and on that is. hehe
I have 1 domain with GoDaddy. It is mainly so I can do Resolver in my intranet with domains.
I created second level subdomains in my Resolver and was adding those to the cert before. Then it stopped working. Thought it was because of that and the fact I was doing wild cards.
Like yourself I could see the text being added and the authorization error. was confused as heck.
I called tech support, got a fella on the line and was about to ask about the acme challenge when all I could hear in the background was a steady banging. Like at a house being built. I was unable to converse, I asked if he could tell the maintenance guy to stop the banging for a few minutes, he says, "it's my dad, he is doing something." I'm like oh you are WFH.

Then while the banging was continuing I was trying to get info from him and was getting nowhere. As I asked to speak to someone else who may know something about this, the dog chimed in. Dog barking, dad hammering on the walls, continuously ( loud too ), no info, complete waste of time.
call ended

What is another option? Is there a DNS provider that I could use that would make this work again?

P.S. If I look in the tmp directory where the script is preparing files while negotiating with GoDaddy DNS I see there is a csr file and it ends up being created with the new info. But because the script fails on a verify it doesn't seem to finish and put the necessary files in the acme folder. maybe I can use these? do the conversions, for my needs?