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Free SSL Certificate on GoDaddy Shared Hosting with DNS Verification

This is an update from my earlier post on the same subject for more than a year ago. The SSL certification is the same but the process has changed. Getting free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt is a multi steps process. Sites like SSL for Free and ZeroSSL  make it simpler. However, they want to verify that you have the control over the domain where the free SSL certificate is for. They want you to create TXT records in the DNS server that hosts your domain. They will give the details of the TXT records for you to enter. Then they will query the DNS server for the TXT records. If the records are the same then you are verified to have the control over the domain, and they will create the certificate for you. They just create the certificate. You have to install it in your hosting server. I was getting the free SSL certificate for my https://cryptobubbles.club from Let's Encrypt. In fact I wanted to have HTTPS for https://answering.cryptobubbles.club because I want