[docs] Refresh digital ocean provider docs (#3860)

## Done

- [docs] Refresh digital ocean provider docs by clarifying which record
types are supported, linking to the digital ocean docs, and calling out
other relevant internal docs.
- spelling correction
- update docs for chicks-net as maintainer for digital ocean

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@ -16,10 +16,14 @@ Example:
```
{% endcode %}
The [creds.json](../commands/creds-json.md#example-commands) page in the docs explains how you can generate this dynamically so you can pull the secret token from 1Password or the vault of your choosing.
## Metadata
This provider does not recognize any special metadata fields unique to DigitalOcean.
## Usage
An example configuration:
{% code title="dnsconfig.js" %}
@ -34,10 +38,34 @@ D("example.com", REG_NONE, DnsProvider(DSP_DIGITALOCEAN),
{% endcode %}
## Activation
[Create Personal Access Token](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens)
- [Create Personal Access Token](https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens)
- [How to Create a Personal Access Token (documentation)](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/create-personal-access-token/)
Your access token must have access to create, read, update and delete domain records.
## Supported record types
The [API reference](https://docs.digitalocean.com/reference/api/digitalocean/#tag/Domain-Records) states that these record types are supported:
| Name | Description |
| ----- | ----------- |
| A | This record type is used to map an IPv4 address to a hostname. |
| AAAA | This record type is used to map an IPv6 address to a hostname. |
| CAA | As specified in RFC-6844, this record type can be used to restrict which certificate authorities are permitted to issue certificates for a domain. |
| CNAME | This record type defines an alias for your canonical hostname (the one defined by an A or AAAA record). |
| MX | This record type is used to define the mail exchanges used for the domain. |
| NS | This record type defines the name servers that are used for this zone. |
| TXT | This record type is used to associate a string of text with a hostname, primarily used for verification. |
| SRV | This record type specifies the location (hostname and port number) of servers for specific services. |
| SOA | This record type defines administrative information about the zone. Can only have ttl changed, cannot be deleted |
## Unsupported record types
This means that `ALIAS`, `DHCID`, `DNAME`, `DS`, `FRAME`, `HTTPS`, `LOC`, `OPENPGPKEY`, `PTR`, `SMIMEA`, `SSHFP`, `SVCB`, `TLSA`, `URL`, or `URL301` presumably **do not work** with Digital Ocean.
In 2025, the provider maintainer has confirmed that `ALIAS` and `LOC` records are rejected. The other ones that do not work are expected in this circumstance. `SPF` records are not a problem since they are turned into `TXT` record types.
## Limitations
- Digitalocean DNS doesn't support `;` value with CAA-records ([DigitalOcean documentation](https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/dns/how-to/create-caa-records/))

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@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ Providers in this category and their maintainers are:
|[`CNR`](cnr.md)|@KaiSchwarz-cnic|
|[`CSCGLOBAL`](cscglobal.md)|@Air-New-Zealand|
|[`DESEC`](desec.md)|@D3luxee|
|[`DIGITALOCEAN`](digitalocean.md)|@Deraen|
|[`DIGITALOCEAN`](digitalocean.md)|@chicks-net|
|[`DNSIMPLE`](dnsimple.md)|@onlyhavecans|
|[`DNSMADEEASY`](dnsmadeeasy.md)|@vojtad|
|[`DNSOVERHTTPS`](dnsoverhttps.md)|@mikenz|