You can only get wildcard certs from Thawte. No other CA currently offers
them. And as you stated, Verisign doesn't like wildcard certs--they cut
into their profit margin. The whole reason Verisign purchased Thawte was
to get rid of a competitor that was quickly eating away at their market
share. In fact, I'm surprised they haven't completely shut down Thawte by
now.
We just renewed our wildcard cert two weeks ago and had no problems in
doing so. I have no clue if they still issue new wildcard certs.
Tucows: I think you will see a great increase in business if you offer
wildcard certs!
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:18:47AM -0400, Darryl Green wrote:
> > Yes...
> >
> > Our price is $99 for new (who let the lawyers out with the handling fees --
> > there are no handling fees)...same price for renewals.
>
> Does that go for wildcart certs? Thawte has again changed their
> pricing - now they're going to be "licensed" on an individual basis.
>
> We have a bunch of individual *.netmonger.net sites for various
> functions (portal, online payment, domain registration, intranet,
> etc.) that seemed like a good application for a wildcart cert, back
> when they were the same $100 as the rest. Now we're being reamed
> because VeriSign doesn't want to "lose business" by ISPs hosting
> customer sites as subdomains.
