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by air7 2399 days ago
Something is missing here: HTTPS links and SSL. Either website.com hands over its certificate to dnsdelegation.io (which is unlikely and definitely not a 2 min trust-less process) or dnsdelegation.io has the ability to generate any certificate like a certificate authority which is really terrible (and also unlikely).
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With ACME enabled CAs like letsencrypt, having a domain pointing to an IP you control is all you need to obtain a valid certificate.
DV certificate (cheapest, most common one) does require only proof of control over the domain.

So dnsdelegation.io can just request certificate for the domain you've delegated via cname from any CA.

They are (ab)using let’s encrypt.