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DV certs can certainly have wildcards and multiple domains, and no, OV certs are not "more secure" - they simply contain additional fields which suggest that a
by vertex-four 10y ago
DV certs can certainly have wildcards and multiple domains, and no, OV certs are not "more secure" - they simply contain additional fields which suggest that a CA has taken some amount of effort to verify that the domains belong to a given organisation, which the end user can read. This is generally more-or-less useless, as I'm pretty sure we all know that nytimes.com is owned by the New York Times.
- dx034 10y agoAnd who reads the certificate anyway? I've never heard that an end user actually reads the content of the certificate. They just look for the green lock. It would often be confusing anyway, as the legal entities the certificate is issued to can be named very different from the brand.