What is there to abuse? It's not any more difficult to issue a wildcard than a regular cert. In fact even easier on them, since you're not bombarding their server with requests to validate all 5-10-15

Let's Encrypt will start providing wildcard certificates in Jan 2018.

I don't really like the idea of LE wildcards because, as mentioned already, it sets a bad precedent. Then again, I still don't really like SNI, either, but at least it lets you setup multiple certif

Somebody on IRC pointed out that this may cause dangerous behaviour from users. Specifically: Wildcard certificates should NOT be used for "easy subdomains". By sharing the same cert

According to the Let's Encrypt blog free wildcard certs are on their way.

Although letsencrypt.org exists, wildcard certs are still quite invaluable for some use cases. I use it for my Sandstorm.io installation, so I probably would have to scrap that if they revoke my wildc

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About 9k Wildcard-certs and I guess a few thousand not wildcard-certs.

Sometimes I reach the let's encrypt ssl limit, that's when Cloudflare Free Wildcard SSL comes into play.

Quite possible that one of those providers who bundle such wildcard certificate with their VPS plans or those who resell these free certificates for a few dollars went to SG to bitch about it.

Nowadays I simply issue a free wildcard from assl.loov.it or whatever it's called.

-Free Wildcard AlphaSSL!

It's not like you have A LOT OF subdomain. You only have a few. Don't waste your money for wildcard ssl

If your requirement to secure few sub domains (which is more than 3) of the same domain name then your should go with Wildcard SSL certificate but if your requirement to secure few sub domains of the

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If you want to secure different subdomains which are hosted under a single website then Wildcard SSL certificate would be a better option for you.

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Is your requirement for wildcard SSL or multi-domain SSL?

Let's ecnrypt doesn't support wildcard certificate. If you want to use wildcard certificate I think you need to pay.