Key rotation doesn't change the account URI — ACME key rollover (RFC 8555 §7.3.5) replaces the key pair but keeps the same account URL, which is one of the reas

Key rotation doesn't change the account URI — ACME key rollover (RFC 8555 §7.3.5) replaces the key pair but keeps the same account URL, which is one of the reasons the draft uses account URI rather than a public key. Your DNS record stays unchanged through key rotations. The only case that requires a DNS update is creating an entirely new account, and that's deliberate — the record binds a specific account to the domain so a stolen record can't be used by someone else. For your setup with CNAME delegation to a custom DNS server, this should actually be simpler than dns-01. You would point _validation-persist instead of _acme-challenge, and the target record is static. No per-issuance dynamic updates at all.