DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A

My domain is: shinyserv.es

I ran this command: sudo letsencrypt certonly -a webroot --webroot-path=/var/www/html/ --domain shinysrv.es

It produced this output:

Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator webroot, Installer None
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for shinysrv.es
Using the webroot path /var/www/html for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification...
Challenge failed for domain shinysrv.es
http-01 challenge for shinysrv.es
Cleaning up challenges
Some challenges have failed.

IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - The following errors were reported by the server:

   Domain: shinysrv.es
   Type:   dns
   Detail: DNS problem: NXDOMAIN looking up A for shinysrv.es - check
   that a DNS record exists for this domain

My web server is (include version): nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 20.04

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Amazon Route 43

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): yes

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): no

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot): 0.40.0

I attach the records of the Hosted Zone that I added following this guide:

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This domain doesn't appear to be registered.

Did you mean to type shinyserv.es in your Certbot command?

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Ah, that's gotta be a classic, the good old typo on the command line :laughing:

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Yes, my bad, wrong typing... Thank you! Now I get different errors that I need to check out :slight_smile:

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Good luck! I hope you manage to fix the next hurdle. If you don't manage to figure it out yourself, you're always welcome here.

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