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Purchase multiple SSL certificates for same domain name

Hello.

A different department purchased an SSL certificate with four domain names (primarydomain.com, www.primarydomain.com, userportal.com and website.com).

Is there any harm in purchasing a wildcard SSL certificate as *.primarydomain.com? This certificate would be installed on entirely different servers from the certificate installed on the above servers.

I just want to make sure that purchasing a wildcard certificate that would essentially "cover" primarydomain.com and www.primarydomain.com would not cause any issues for say someone browsing to www.primarydomain.com.

I'm 99% sure the answer to this is that there would be no issue at all. This has to happen in the real world (and test labs) all the time.

Thank you.

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kevinhsieh

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Bembi

Lets say, for a web server I do not see issues for the watching user.
Possibly there may be issues for the server which is offering the cert.
So make sure the service where you want to use the cert can work with wildcard certificates.
There are some products at least in the past, which do not like wildcard certs.

David Johnson, CD

no issue I"ve used wildcard certs for yers. add the common names does help

in your scenario you cannot use wildcards

can use wildcards
primarydomain.com
www.primarydomain.com,

need separate certificate

userportal.com and website.com)

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