[LINK] https://www.google.com.au certificate is not validating - anyone know why?

[Michael Still]

David Lochrin wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2008 13:41, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>> Jon Seymour wrote:
>> 
>>> Ah, silly me. It is because www.google.com.au presents 
>>> www.google.com's certificate.
>> Technically each of google.ca, google.co.uk, google.ru etc should
>> have its own cert.
> 
> That's interesting - would you mind telling us why?  Are certificates
> supposed to be authorised by some national registration authority?

Certificates are domain specific. Those three examples are all different 
domains.

(You can have wildcards, but only at the front).

Mikal