diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@ You don't have to do anything manually!
 1. Servercow (https://servercow.de)
 1. Namesilo (https://www.namesilo.com)
 1. InternetX autoDNS API (https://internetx.com)
+1. Azure DNS
 
 And: 
 
diff --git a/dnsapi/README.md b/dnsapi/README.md
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--- a/dnsapi/README.md
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@@ -684,6 +684,25 @@ acme.sh --issue --dns dns_autodns -d example.com -d www.example.com
 
 The `AUTODNS_USER`, `AUTODNS_PASSWORD` and `AUTODNS_CONTEXT` settings will be saved in `~/.acme.sh/account.conf` and will be reused when needed.
 
+## 37. Use Azure DNS
+
+You have to create a service principal first. See:[How to use Azure DNS](../../../wiki/How-to-use-Azure-DNS)
+
+```
+export AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID="12345678-9abc-def0-1234-567890abcdef"
+export AZUREDNS_TENANTID="11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555"
+export AZUREDNS_APPID="3b5033b5-7a66-43a5-b3b9-a36b9e7c25ed"
+export AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET="1b0224ef-34d4-5af9-110f-77f527d561bd"
+```
+
+Then you can issue your certificates with:
+
+```
+acme.sh --issue --dns dns_azure -d example.com -d www.example.com
+```
+
+`AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID`, `AZUREDNS_TENANTID`,`AZUREDNS_APPID` and `AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET` settings will be saved in `~/.acme.sh/account.conf` and will be reused when needed.
+
 # Use custom API
 
 If your API is not supported yet, you can write your own DNS API.
diff --git a/dnsapi/dns_azure.sh b/dnsapi/dns_azure.sh
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@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+########  Public functions #####################
+
+# Usage: add  _acme-challenge.www.domain.com   "XKrxpRBosdIKFzxW_CT3KLZNf6q0HG9i01zxXp5CPBs"
+# Used to add txt record
+#
+# Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/dns/recordsets/createorupdate
+#
+dns_azure_add() {
+  fulldomain=$1
+  txtvalue=$2
+
+  AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID="${AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID)}"
+  AZUREDNS_TENANTID="${AZUREDNS_TENANTID:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_TENANTID)}"
+  AZUREDNS_APPID="${AZUREDNS_APPID:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_APPID)}"
+  AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET="${AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET)}"
+  
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID" ]; then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify the Azure Subscription ID "
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_TENANTID" ] ; then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify then Azure Tenant ID "
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_APPID" ] ; then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify the Azure App ID"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET" ]; then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify the Azure Client Secret"
+    return 1
+  fi
+  #save account details to account conf file.
+  _saveaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID "$AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID"
+  _saveaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_TENANTID "$AZUREDNS_TENANTID"
+  _saveaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_APPID "$AZUREDNS_APPID"
+  _saveaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET "$AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET"
+
+  accesstoken=$(_azure_getaccess_token "$AZUREDNS_TENANTID" "$AZUREDNS_APPID" "$AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET")
+
+  if ! _get_root "$fulldomain"  "$AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID" "$accesstoken"; then
+   _err "invalid domain"
+   return 1
+  fi
+  _debug _domain_id "$_domain_id"
+  _debug _sub_domain "$_sub_domain"
+  _debug _domain "$_domain"
+
+  acmeRecordURI="https://management.azure.com$(printf '%s' "$_domain_id" |sed 's/\\//g')/TXT/$_sub_domain?api-version=2017-09-01"
+  _debug "$acmeRecordURI"
+  body="{\"properties\": {\"TTL\": 3600, \"TXTRecords\": [{\"value\": [\"$txtvalue\"]}]}}"
+  _azure_rest PUT "$acmeRecordURI" "$body" "$accesstoken"
+  if [ "$_code" = "200" ] || [ "$_code" = '201' ]; then
+    _info "validation record added"
+  else
+    _err "error adding validation record ($_code)"
+    return 1
+  fi   
+}
+
+# Usage: fulldomain txtvalue
+# Used to remove the txt record after validation
+#
+# Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/dns/recordsets/delete
+#
+dns_azure_rm() {
+  fulldomain=$1
+  txtvalue=$2
+
+  AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID="${AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID)}"
+  AZUREDNS_TENANTID="${AZUREDNS_TENANTID:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_TENANTID)}"
+  AZUREDNS_APPID="${AZUREDNS_APPID:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_APPID)}"
+  AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET="${AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET:-$(_readaccountconf_mutable AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET)}"
+
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID" ]; then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify the Azure Subscription ID "
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_TENANTID" ] ; then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify the Azure Tenant ID "
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_APPID" ]  ;then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify the Azure App ID"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET" ]; then
+    AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID=""
+    AZUREDNS_TENANTID=""
+    AZUREDNS_APPID=""
+    AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET=""
+    _err "You didn't specify Azure Client Secret"
+    return 1
+  fi
+
+  accesstoken=$(_azure_getaccess_token "$AZUREDNS_TENANTID" "$AZUREDNS_APPID" "$AZUREDNS_CLIENTSECRET")
+
+  if ! _get_root "$fulldomain"  "$AZUREDNS_SUBSCRIPTIONID" "$accesstoken"; then
+   _err "invalid domain"
+   return 1
+  fi
+  _debug _domain_id "$_domain_id"
+  _debug _sub_domain "$_sub_domain"
+  _debug _domain "$_domain"
+
+  acmeRecordURI="https://management.azure.com$(printf '%s' "$_domain_id" |sed 's/\\//g')/TXT/$_sub_domain?api-version=2017-09-01"
+  _debug "$acmeRecordURI"
+  body="{\"properties\": {\"TTL\": 3600, \"TXTRecords\": [{\"value\": [\"$txtvalue\"]}]}}"
+  _azure_rest DELETE "$acmeRecordURI" "" "$accesstoken"
+  if [ "$_code" = "200" ] || [ "$_code" = '204' ]; then
+    _info "validation record removed"
+  else
+    _err "error removing validation record ($_code)"
+    return 1
+  fi
+}
+
+###################  Private functions below ##################################
+
+_azure_rest() {
+  m=$1
+  ep="$2"
+  data="$3"
+  accesstoken="$4"
+
+  export _H1="authorization: Bearer $accesstoken"
+  export _H2="accept: application/json"
+  export _H3="Content-Type: application/json"
+  
+  _debug "$ep"
+  if [ "$m" != "GET" ]; then
+   _debug data "$data"
+   response="$(_post "$data" "$ep" "" "$m")"
+  else
+   response="$(_get "$ep")"
+  fi
+  _debug2 response "$response"
+
+  _code="$(grep "^HTTP" "$HTTP_HEADER" | _tail_n 1 | cut -d " " -f 2 | tr -d "\r\n")"
+  _debug2 "http response code $_code"   
+
+  if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+   _err "error $ep"
+   return 1
+  fi
+  return 0
+}
+
+## Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/active-directory-protocols-oauth-service-to-service#request-an-access-token
+_azure_getaccess_token() {
+  TENANTID=$1
+  clientID=$2
+  clientSecret=$3
+
+  export _H1="accept: application/json"
+  export _H2="Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+
+  body="resource=$(printf "%s" 'https://management.core.windows.net/'| _url_encode)&client_id=$(printf "%s" "$clientID" | _url_encode)&client_secret=$(printf "%s" "$clientSecret"| _url_encode)&grant_type=client_credentials"
+  _debug data "$body"
+  response="$(_post "$body" "https://login.windows.net/$TENANTID/oauth2/token" "" "POST" )"
+  accesstoken=$(echo "$response" | _egrep_o "\"access_token\":\"[^\"]*\"" | head -n 1 | cut -d : -f 2 | tr -d \")
+  _debug2 "response $response"
+
+  if [ -z "$accesstoken" ] ; then 
+    _err "no acccess token received"
+    return 1    
+  fi
+  if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
+    _err "error $response"
+    return 1
+  fi
+  printf "%s" "$accesstoken"
+  return 0
+}
+
+_get_root() {
+  domain=$1
+  subscriptionId=$2
+  accesstoken=$3
+  i=2
+  p=1
+
+  ## Ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/dns/zones/list
+  ## returns up to 100 zones in one response therefore handling more results is not not implemented
+  ## (ZoneListResult with  continuation token for the next page of results)
+  ## Per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits#dns-limits you are limited to 100 Zone/subscriptions anyways
+  ##
+  _azure_rest GET "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/$subscriptionId/providers/Microsoft.Network/dnszones?api-version=2017-09-01" "" "$accesstoken"
+
+  # Find matching domain name is Json response
+  while true; do
+    h=$(printf "%s" "$domain" | cut -d . -f $i-100)
+    _debug2 "Checking domain: $h"
+    if [ -z "$h" ]; then
+      #not valid
+      _err "Invalid domain"
+      return 1
+    fi
+
+    if _contains "$response" "\"name\":\"$h\"" >/dev/null; then
+      _domain_id=$(echo "$response" | _egrep_o "\{\"id\":\"[^\"]*$h\"" | head -n 1 | cut -d : -f 2 | tr -d \")
+      if [ "$_domain_id" ]; then
+        _sub_domain=$(printf "%s" "$domain" | cut -d . -f 1-$p)
+        _domain=$h
+        return 0
+      fi
+      return 1
+    fi
+    p=$i
+    i=$(_math "$i" + 1)
+  done
+  return 1
+}