# Unable to obtain ACME certificate for wildcard domains

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/unable-to-obtain-acme-certificate-for-wildcard-domains/5408>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** letsencrypt-acme\
**Created:** [April 10, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/unable-to-obtain-acme-certificate-for-wildcard-domains/5408 "2020-04-10T10:20:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![ldez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/ldez/32/5_2.png) [@ldez](https://community.traefik.io/u/ldez)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/unable-to-obtain-acme-certificate-for-wildcard-domains/5408/23 "2020-05-03T23:05:20Z")

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> [@floatingpurr](#):
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> P.S.: an empty TXT record is left in my GoDaddy DNS Management. Is it fine?

yes it's fine, it's because the GoDaddy API don't allow to remove TXT records: the only way to remove the TXT records is to create one "empty" TXT record to replace the others. It's a weird API.

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