# Why won't acme.sh acquire Let's Encrypt certificates?

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118>\
**Category:** Client dev\
**Created:** [July 20, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118 "2021-07-20T12:49:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlanCapital](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@AlanCapital](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/AlanCapital)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118/1 "2021-07-20T12:49:15Z")

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Why acme.sh doesn't support [Letsencrypt.org](http://Letsencrypt.org) CA ????

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**Author:** ![danb35](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/danb35/32/70869_2.png) [@danb35](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/danb35)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118/2 "2021-07-20T14:23:24Z")

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Why don't you ask them, and why did you open a topic with such a dishonest title? Because I'm pretty sure it does, even if it now defaults to ZeroSSL. And the reason that it defaults to ZeroSSL is that ZeroSSL owns acme.sh.

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**Author:** ![AlanCapital](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@AlanCapital](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/AlanCapital)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118/3 "2021-07-20T14:25:36Z")

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Thank you

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**Author:** ![petercooperjr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/petercooperjr/32/84698_2.png) [@petercooperjr](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/petercooperjr)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118/4 "2021-07-20T15:28:49Z")

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You might be looking for this thread?

> [@The acme.sh will change default CA to ZeroSSL on August-1st 2021](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/the-acme-sh-will-change-default-ca-to-zerossl-on-august-1st-2021/144052):
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**Author:** ![AlanCapital](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@AlanCapital](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/AlanCapital)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118/5 "2021-07-20T16:43:31Z")

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Thanks, and I have already updated one wildcard cert with certbot )

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/why-wont-acme-sh-acquire-lets-encrypt-certificates/156118/6 "2021-08-19T16:43:47Z")

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