diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1814-dnsimple-add-support-for-caa-records.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1814-dnsimple-add-support-for-caa-records.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bc4915b7b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/1814-dnsimple-add-support-for-caa-records.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - dnsimple - add CAA records to the whitelist of valid record types (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/1814).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/net_tools/dnsimple.py b/plugins/modules/net_tools/dnsimple.py
index f802d35f51..c4314b6539 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/net_tools/dnsimple.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/net_tools/dnsimple.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ options:
   type:
     description:
       - The type of DNS record to create.
-    choices: [ 'A', 'ALIAS', 'CNAME', 'MX', 'SPF', 'URL', 'TXT', 'NS', 'SRV', 'NAPTR', 'PTR', 'AAAA', 'SSHFP', 'HINFO', 'POOL' ]
+    choices: [ 'A', 'ALIAS', 'CNAME', 'MX', 'SPF', 'URL', 'TXT', 'NS', 'SRV', 'NAPTR', 'PTR', 'AAAA', 'SSHFP', 'HINFO', 'POOL', 'CAA' ]
     type: str
   ttl:
     description:
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ def main():
             record=dict(type='str'),
             record_ids=dict(type='list', elements='str'),
             type=dict(type='str', choices=['A', 'ALIAS', 'CNAME', 'MX', 'SPF', 'URL', 'TXT', 'NS', 'SRV', 'NAPTR', 'PTR', 'AAAA', 'SSHFP', 'HINFO',
-                                           'POOL']),
+                                           'POOL', 'CAA']),
             ttl=dict(type='int', default=3600),
             value=dict(type='str'),
             priority=dict(type='int'),