Wildcard certificate

Wildcard certificate

Wildcard certificates protect any number of subdomains of a domain (e.g. ftp.musterdomain.ch, mail.musterdomain.ch, www.musterdomain.ch, *.musterdomain.ch). Because you only need a single wildcard certificate instead of many individual certificates, the wildcard certificate is a cost-effective and efficient solution for many organizations.

For wildcard certificates please enter your general name (CN) according to the scheme *.musterdomain.ch, this protects e.g. mail.musterdomain.ch, www.musterdomain.ch and www2.musterdomain.ch. But attention: It does not protect musterdomain.ch, www.de.musterdomain.ch and www.us.musterdomain.ch. To also protect musterdomain.ch you have to buy a separate simple certificate, for www.de.musterdomain.ch and www.us.musterdomain.ch you can only buy wildcards for *.de.musterdomain.ch and *.us.musterdomain.ch. Multi-level wildcard certificates (*.*.musterdomain.ch) are not offered by any certification authority.

A separate IP address per SSL site is no longer required today: thanks to SNI (Server Name Indication), several SSL sites can share the same IP address.

When licensing additional physical machines, the product lines Lite, Bronze, Silver and Platinum differ significantly in price: while Platinum charges the full price again for each additional physical machine, additional physical machines are free of charge with Lite, Bronze and Silver.