It is possible to do this. At one point it was up in the air a bit until 4592 clarified that it should be supported. Just because it is possible doesn’t mean it is supported by all DNS providers. For example, GoDaddy won’t let you set up a wildcard in a CNAME record. In terms … Read more
RFC2818 states: If more than one identity of a given type is present in the certificate (e.g., more than one dNSName name, a match in any one of the set is considered acceptable.) Names may contain the wildcard character * which is considered to match any single domain name component or component fragment. E.g., *.a.com … Read more
The asterisk (*) means “zero or more of the previous item”. If you want to match any single character use If you want to match any string (i.e. any single character zero or more times) use