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		lilyball on July 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wildcard Certificates Coming January 2018 Glad to hear it. So the assumption is that if you control the DNS for example.com then you control the DNS for all subdomains? That seems like a reasonable assumption.

icebraining on July 6, 2017 [–]

To validate you actually need to create a specific subdomain (_acme-challenge.<domain>), so effectively you do control the DNS for subdomains.

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