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What is SSL Web Server Wildcard Certificate?

April 26, 2017Certificate SSL web server wildcard

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What is SSL Web Server Wildcard Certificate?

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A SSL Web Server Wildcard Certificate is a single server certificate to secure sub host names including fully qualified domain names using single wildcard certificate on the same domain name. For illustration, A SSL Web Server WildCard SSL Certificate for mail.domain.com could be used for www.domain.com.

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A SSL Web Server Wildcard Certificate is a single certificate, with a wildcard character in the domain name field. This allows the certificate to secure multiple sub domain names ( hosts ) within the same domain. For example, a wildcard certificate for *.domain.com, could be used for www.domain.com.