Gandi's Wildcard Standard SSL Certificates

This is a type of Standard SSL certificate at Gandi, and so it is ideal for protecting websites that do not perform financial transactions. The Wildcard Standard SSL certificate lets you secure a domain name and all its current and/or future subdomains.

Unlike the Single-address Standard SSL certificates, the Wildcard version lets you secure more than one address on a domain name. For example:

  • www.example.com
  • admin.example.com
  • photos.example.com
  • videos.example.com
  • forum.example.com
  • etc.

If you need to secure various domain names through one certificate, however (eg. www.example.com and www.example.net), then you would want to choose one of our Multi-domain certificates, as opposed to a Wildcard certificate.

A Wildcard certificate secures the bare domain (apex) and unlimited first-level subdomains: example.com and *.example.com ; but it does not secure higher levels such as *.*.example.com and so on. To cover say *.sub.example.com, you will need to buy another Wildcard certificate. To cover www.sub.example.com, you will need to buy another Single-address certificate.

The Standard SSL Wildcard Certificate includes:

  • Gandi certification
  • 128/256 Bit encryption
  • 99% browser recognition
  • Trust logo
  • Issued in under 24 hours
  • Domain Mismatch Protection
  • Secure accented domains
  • 60-day money-back guarantee
Last modified: 08/12/2017 at 08:40 by Jeremie B. (Gandi)