Here are the exact details as promised.
Thawte stopped issuing wildcard certificates on August 28th 2002. They say
that Verisign have always done them and still do them (see my previous
post). I can give details of individuals within the company if anyone needs
to verify this for themselves.
It
There is information on the Thawte site to say that these are now issued by
Verisign. This page
http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/buildEcommerce/certificates.html
Says:
£Name-Based Virtual Hosting: An ISP or Web Host provides each hosted
customer with a unique domain name, such as customername
That's interesting! We still have a wildcard certificate (check it out at
https://wwws.rnib.org.uk/donation.htm) which we received back on the 16th
July. Thawte have been making it difficult to get them, since although they
save on administration and allow you limited NBVH to a single IP, they were
