Actually Equifax offers wildcard certs. And they are pretty cheap.
They do have a note on the bottom of their site about the wildcard
certs.
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NOTE: Web customers who use Windows 2000 should install Service Pack 1
to fix a number of security bugs. Otherwise, they may see a dialogue box
that states "The name on the security certificate does not match the
name on the site" when visiting a site that uses a wildcard certificate.
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Donny
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org [mailto:owner-discuss-
> list@opensrs.org] On Behalf Of bill@daze.net
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: chris+opensrs@netmonger.net
> Cc: discuss-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: Re: Web certificate pricing?
>
> 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 chris+opensrs@netmonger.net 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.
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