New-AcmeRegistration Unexpected character encountered

[nidaren]

Since today I am getting this error when using New-ACMERegistration. I'm using the format of this command, as specified in the QuickStart guide. guide.

New-ACMERegistration : Unexpected character encountered while parsing value: <. Path '', line 0, position 0
At line:1 char:1
+ New-ACMERegistration -Contacts mailto:[email protected] -AcceptTo ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-ACMERegistration], JsonReaderException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException,ACMESharp.POSH.NewRegistration

[LikeHoo]

Same here with New-ACMECertificate

[PrzemyslawKlys]

i would say you're using mailto: instead of your email address. It seems you copied address without looking.

[PrzemyslawKlys]

New-ACMERegistration -Contacts mailto:[email protected]

[cpu]

Based on the error message failing to parse a JSON response that has a leading < character I expect you're encountering a side effect of the current outage. Please see https://letsencrypt.status.io/

[LikeHoo]

Seem to be resolved now. Probably was affected by the outage as mentioned by @cpu