### A.1.1. CAA contactemail Property
SYNTAX: `contactemail `
The CAA contactemail property takes an email address as its parameter. The entire parameter value MUST be a valid email address as defined in [RFC 6532, Section 3.2](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6532#section-3.2), with no additional padding or structure, or it cannot be used.
The following is an example where the holder of the domain specified the contact property using an email address.
```DNSZone
$ORIGIN example.com .
CAA 0 contactemail "domainowner@example.com"
```
The contactemail property MAY be critical, if the domain owner does not want CAs who do not understand it to issue certificates for the domain.