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[ic] Re: Recommendation for CA to issue Certs. (now wildcard cert info)
On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 01:46 , Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> Extactly, this is as I understood it so why are they calling this
> subdomains? Wouldn't A.COM be the domain for A and B.A.COM have a
> subdomain B for domain A?
>
> Would it not appear that Thawte is altering their definition of
> wildcards from supporting any hosts within a domain to defining
> subdomains? What happens if you do not use subdomains?
>
> Barry
Just how you are describing it. technically domain.com is a
subdomain. So for www.domain.com
.com is the top level domain
domain is the subdomain of .com
www is a subdomain of domain
Chad