Updated on 2026-10-10 GMT+08:00

Email Verification

According to the CA requirements, if you applied for an SSL certificate, you must prove that the domain name to be associated with the certificate belongs to you.

Email verification means that you log in to the mailbox of the domain name administrator, receive the domain name confirmation email, and reply to the email sent by the CA. After the domain name administrator replies to the verification email sent by the CA, the verification is successful. The process is shown in Figure 1.

If you select email verification when applying for a certificate, perform the operations described in this section.

Figure 1 Email verification process for an EV certificate

Procedure

  1. Log in to the email address you used to apply for the domain name as the domain name administrator. For details about how to query the email address of the domain name administrator, see How Do I Query and Verify the Email Address of the Domain Administrator?
  2. Open the domain name confirmation email from the CA.
  3. Click the confirmation link in the email to complete the domain name verification.

    After the verification is complete, additional time is required for the CA to verify your domain name. During this period, the certificate is in the Pending domain name verification state.

    If you have verified the domain name ownership, the CA will take 2 to 3 working days to verify your information. The certificate enters the Pending organization verification state only after the CA has confirmed your domain ownership.