Jan 7, 2026 – Default DV Certificates in General Availability

Default Domain Validation (DV) is ​Akamai​'s streamlined certificate management solution that onboards secure hostnames to the ​Akamai​ platform with minimal effort and zero certificate overhead.

Default DV automatically provisions single-hostname Domain Validation certificates issued by Let's Encrypt within seconds and deploys them to the edge network within minutes. The solution eliminates manual certificate management by handling provisioning, deployment, and automated renewals transparently in the background.

With General Availability, Default DV now offers enhanced flexibility through HTTP-01 validation support, improved operational tooling for enterprise-scale deployments, comprehensive lifecycle notifications, and streamlined enablement based on contract entitlements, delivering enterprise-grade certificate automation to a variety of users, ranging from those with a handful of hostnames to at-scale deployments managing thousands of secure endpoints.

Check the guides and API workflows to explore all Default DV capabilities.