No. Wildcard certificates do not cover the root domain name. I recently ran into this particular issue with our site, and we determined that the only viable alt

No. Wildcard certificates do not cover the root domain name. I recently ran into this particular issue with our site, and we determined that the only viable alternatives are using an certificate with a "Subject Alternative Name" (an X.509 extension) to cover the root domain name, or to use multiple certificates.