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Masud
11-09-2009, 09:16 AM
Guys,

We are planning to use Wildcard EV SSL on one of our portal. Kindly advice which one is the best.

Verisign and Comodo are too costly. Do you have any other reliable and secure solution in your mind?

Regards

SC-Daniel
11-09-2009, 10:55 AM
The cheapest I have seen EV certs are from Namecheap but they don't offer Wildcard:

http://www.namecheap.com/learn/other-services/ssl-certificate-pricing.asp?pricefor=ssl

You could try and contact them and see if wildcard is available and just not advertised.

BurakUeda
11-09-2009, 11:39 AM
Could you post the link to Verisign and Comodo Wildcard EV SSL?
I couldn't find any.

Geocerts is the cheapest EV SSL I could find, but not wildcard:
https://www.geocerts.com/ssl/ev

Anyhow, if you are on a tight budget, just don't use subdomains. Get your cert for the whole domain, and use subfolders:

www.domain.com
www.domain.com/support
www.domain.com/sales
www.domain.com/members
www.domain.com/forums

XFactorServers
11-09-2009, 11:50 AM
Could you post the link to Verisign and Comodo Wildcard EV SSL?
I couldn't find any.

Geocerts is the cheapest EV SSL I could find, but not wildcard:
https://www.geocerts.com/ssl/ev

Anyhow, if you are on a tight budget, just don't use subdomains. Get your cert for the whole domain, and use subfolders:

www.domain.com
www.domain.com/support
www.domain.com/sales
www.domain.com/members
www.domain.com/forums

Agreed. Use the sub folders and get a geotrust ev ssl from namecheap for $179 and you won't regret it.

robertss
11-09-2009, 12:00 PM
The EV SSL Certificate Guidelines do not allow CAs to issue EV Wildcard certificates so you won't find anyone offering them. Some offer EV certificate with multiple SAN names though. That may work if you only have a few subdomains to secure. Alternatively, you could use subfolders instead of subdomains as others mentioned.