"Some challenges have failed" when run "certbot certonly --standalone -d XXXX" and "certbot certonly --standalone -d XXX --debug-challenges -v"

There is an ongoing issue with the .top TLD currently. See https://letsencrypt.status.io/.

There are also a few threads about this issue on the Community already. The most relevant is probably DNS problem: looking up A for xxx.domain.top: DNSSEC: DNSKEY Missing; no valid AAAA records found for xxx.domain.top - #31 by mcpherrinm where the Let's Encrypt staff provides updates.

Please don't post "I'm having this issue too!" in those thread(s) as it doesn't really help: the issue is known already and I'm pretty certain everybody using the .top has issues.

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