On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 05:31:44PM -0600, Jim McAtee wrote:
> Either start making a profit by selling those customers their own
> certificates (as many would argue they should have been forced to do in the
> first place), or else hang their stores off of the other end of your URL by
> placing them in subdirectories.  I don't see much advantage to using
> subdomains, since it's still a cert that has been issued to "netmonger.net"
> and says nothing about the actual business using the cert.

You failed to read my description of what the cert was being used for.
It is NOT FOR CUSTOMER SITES.  Read again:

> > 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.
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