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Wish to purchase one certificate for *.CompanyWhoIWorkFor.com
So it is a wildcard certificate or whatever it's called.
Budget is around £500 - £1000 per annum. This is for a corporate website. Please do not recommend Go-Daddy.
Thought I would ask on here as the viewpoint on here may be more objective than an IT specific forum. Allegedly most of us on are weekend warriors who work in IT. Well I am so it must be true!
Any recommendations?
Thanks in advance
We use verisign. They'll be able to provide one for you.
I would avoid comodo.
Most on here work in the health service, not IT.
Verisign's OK, just make sure whoever you get it from is in the standard install of IE / Firefox / Chrome. (Which should be most of the usual candidates, assuming you don't go for some v. cheap outfit.)
I tend to use Digicert for customers if they don't have their own preferences.
Do you actually need a wildcard though? UCC or SAN certificates are commonplace these days (due to Lync needing them rather than wildcard, and being heavily preferred for Exchange), are arguably more secure, and may work out cheaper.
Thwate / Verisign we use... Not sure of the costs though - I don't care. Thats for the finance people to mess about with.
We use Startcom, much cheaper than Verisign. Think they even do EV certs now too.
Thanks for the replies, will start doing research.
Went with Digicert in the end and used the SAN certificates. Saved a load of money, albeit not mine, so all good stuff!
Good stuff 😀 Think they allow free changes if you want/need to alter the SANs too.
Bit late but yeah we use Digicert now (global IT services company), switched away from Verisign as they're a rip-off. If you look at Digicert's client base you don't need to be concerned if they're legit.
Digicert support is great to if you get issues (all our issues tend to be related to the fact our clients will often be the domain owner and it's a PITA getting the approval emails from Digicert returned to them as often no one is monitoring the email address the domain is registered to).