What do I use for the Common Name (CN) when ordering a thawte Wildcard certificate?
A Thawte Wildcard SSL Certificate can secure multiple Fully Qualified Domain Names if they share the same base domain name, reside on the same physical server and share the same second level domain name. For example, if you need to secure the following web sites and they are all hosted on the same server box:
Here are examples of formats that you can secure:
www.yourdomain.com
secure.yourdomain.com
product.yourdomain.com
info.yourdomain.com
The Thawte Wildcard Certificate offers comprehensive authentication procedures, including domain name and identity verification. It also offers 256-, 128-, 56-, or 40-bit encryption depending on your client’s browser capability and the cipher suite installed on your Web server.
Wildcard certificates can save you time and money in acquiring and managing multiple server certificates. Wildcard certificates can secure multiple fully qualified domains if they share the same base domain name and reside on the same physical server and share the same second level domain name. For example, if you need to secure the following websites: www.yourdomain.com secure.yourdomain.com product.yourdomain.com info.yourdomain.com download.yourdomain.com anything.yourdomain.com and all of these websites are hosted on the same server box, you can purchase and install one wildcard certificate issued to *.yourdomain.com to secure all these sites.
