Frequently Asked Questions About SAN/UCC SSL Certificates

No longer do you need individual SSL certificates for every domain name you buy. You can add multiple domain names in SAN fields for security from the same certificate. It saves your company the cost of having to buy individual certificates for every domain. It saves your time to manage multiple certificates.

A wildcard certificate is used for securing multiple sub-domains with a single unique root domain. For example, if you have purchased a wildcard certificate for www.hiyadigital.in, it will also secure tools.hiyadigital.in and email.hiyadigital.in with the same certificate.

When you combine your wildcard certificate with SAN, it can secure all your additional domains or multi-level subdomains.

  • Protect Many Host Names on Various Base Domains in One SSL Certificate
  • Host Numerous SSL Websites on a Single IP Address
  • Make Your Server’s SSL Configurations Simpler

Secure up to 100 different domain names, sub-domains, and public IP addresses with a Multi-Domain SAN Certificate. Multi-Domain SAN Certificates utilize Subject AlternativeNames (SANs).

StarField Technologies has collaborated with Microsoft to make an SSL Certificate for use within the Exchange and Communications Server environments. By using a SAN SSL Certificate, it allows you to use the the Domain Security feature. It enables for a secure client access from the Internet

A Multi-Domain SSL was initially developed for Unified Communications applications. Now, the certificate can be benefitted by anyone looking to simplify securing multiple domain names into one SSL Certificate and one IP address.

  • UCC SAN SSL Certificates will secure your business’ multiple primary domains and all the sub-domains that come in it.
  • The number of primary domains that UCC SAN SSL Certificates can secure depend on the certificate authority. Most certificate authorities set a maximum limit to the number of domains that a UCC SSL can encrypt to 250.
  • All the domain names that you want to protect with a SAN certificate must be listed during the time of purchase. All information about the primary domain must be added at the time of purchase (the primary domains can be substituted with other names later).
  • UCC SAN SSL Certificates comes with DV, OV and EV SSL.
  • Wildcard SSL Certificates encrypt all your multiple sub-domains made from your primary domain.
  • A single Wildcard SSL certificate can provide security to unlimited sub-domains.
  • All your subdomains to be protected can be selected at any time. During the purchase, you can insert a *
  • Wildcard SSLs comes with DV and OV only.

To guard all your multiple primary domains with one SSL certificate, using UCC SAN SSL Certificates can do it for you. This certificate type will enable you to maintain and guard your numerous domains under one certificate. It not only spares you money but also the time, management of keeping track of all the SSL certificates.

The number of domains that UCC SAN SSL Certificates can secure depends on the Certificate Authority:

  • Comodo has increased the number of primary domain security to 250 domains.
  • GeoTrust allows 100 primary domains to be registered for encryption.
  • Symantec and Thawte allow 25 primary domains per certificate.

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