[image] We've Issued Our First IP Address Certificate Since Let’s Encrypt started issuing certificates in 2015, people have repeatedly requested the ability to get certificates for IP addresses, an option that only a few certificate authorities have offered. Until now, they’ve had to loo…

Is it possible to launch pulicly in 2025? So exciting.

I run a DNS-over-HTTPS service for my team, which prefer IP cert. https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/2873600536

Seems like I missed the boat on early-access. Is there any way get access now, maybe through the staging server?

@ambyjkl have you tried requesting a cert from staging? It should work, it just won't be a publicly trusted cert.

Oh i see, so staging environment is not trusted, that's a problem for me, since I need it work on prod.

See Upcoming Changes to Let’s Encrypt Certificates "This week"

Hi there, I would like to request early access for IP certificates. Account URL: https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/2882207456 Use Case: I am running a few internal services and testing environments on bare IPs where assigning a domain name is not practical. I need to secure the commu…

[image] tom31: I would like to request early access Please see the post immediately before yours in this thread :slight_smile: It explains more about the general availability of these features. Earlier posts in this thread explained that early access was closed given the imminent g/a

I'm getting shortlived certificate on my other machine :partying_face:

When will Let's Encrypt's IP certificates be officially launched?

Feature Requests

aarongable December 13, 2025, 8:26am 77

If you wait just a tiny bit, we plan to launch shortlived certs to general availability very soon.

Issuing shortlived fails with 403 on one domain but not others

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