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Comodo Makes the First Move to Solve SSL Wildcard Licensing Issues

Kent, UK. Comodo, the Internet security specialists, today announced an industry first by removing the huge licensing costs currently used by SSL Providers for Wildcard SSL Certificates. The move makes Comodo SSL Wildcard Certificates considerably more cost-effective than any other provider, especially for multiple license Certificates.

Wildcard SSL Certificates allow a single SSL Certificate to be used on multiple and different subdomains and often represent an easy and cost-effective SSL solution for organisations, in particular large enterprises and hosting companies. SSL Providers have traditionally employed a licensing model that sees the cost of a single SSL Wildcard Certificate greatly increase for every additional license purchased. As a new license is required for every new server the Wildcard Certificate is installed on, many companies risk escalating costs as their operations expand. An equal amount of organisations are already paying the unnecessarily high license fees!

Comodo has introduced a new pricing structure for SSL Wildcard certificates which solves the huge issue many companies currently face.

Comodo is selling its PremiumSSL Wildcard for just 449 USD, valid for 1 year and is now only asking an extra 10 USD license fee per additional server using the Wildcard. There are also extra discounts available for multiple year options.

Paul Tourret, Managing Director of Comodo commented “Many hosting and Internet based companies today organize their infrastructures so that traffic is load balanced to their webservers, which is a simple, scalable and reliable way to handle infrastructure growth. Existing CA’s currently sell SSL Wildcard licenses for multiple servers at rates that quite simply do not allow organizations to use Wildcards”. He further added “It has come to our attention that many companies are not paying the licensing fees that they should be and are hence at risk from their CA requesting huge additional funds!”

For organizations hosting a single domain but with different sub domains, the PremiumSSL Wildcard certificate is a cost effective and efficient means of securing all subdomains without the need to manage multiple certificates. PremiumSSL Wildcards are fully validated, 128 bit industry standard SSL, trusted by all popular browsers with 99 percent browser ubiquity and carry a warranty of 10,000 USD.

Paul Tourret further commented “We are delighted to once again be the first in the industry to make security for the Internet more affordable by adjusting our PremiumSSL Wildcard pricing. It just does not make sense to charge outrageous license fees and we simply cannot understand how other CA’s can justify their charges.”

Wildcard SSL Certificates are available from Instant SSL - SSL Certificate Authority or through an Instant SSL partner or affiliate. For enterprise accounts, Wildcard SSL Certificates are also available through Comodo's Enterprise PKI Manager.

About Comodo: Comodo (SSL Certificate Authority ) is a leading Internet security specialist and provides next generation E-commerce Security Solutions. Through a growing range of products, services and applications developed by its dedicated research lab, Comodo provides software, hardware, secure messaging and certificate based security.

After its first year of issuing SSL Certificates, Comodo has quickly become the 2nd largest Certification Authority in the world. For product information please contact + 1.888.266.6361 or + 1.703.581.6361 or visit the Comodo Home Page at www.comodogroup.com.

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