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The **TLS certificates** are **associated with a domain name**, not with an IP address.

So, to renew the certificates, the renewal program needs to **prove** to the authority (Let's Encrypt) that it indeed **"owns" and controls that domain**.

To do that, and to accommodate different application needs, there are several ways it can do it. Some popular ways are:

### Internal

* 👥 Update FastAPI People. PR [#4354](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/4354) by [@github-actions[bot]](https://github.com/apps/github-actions).
* 🔧 Add FastAPI Trove Classifier for PyPI as now there's one 🤷😁. PR [#4386](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/4386) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).