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  • What are the main differences between Digicert and Comodo?
  1. When the division is first created only one administrator is going to be assign to it. This administrator will be able then to register other administrators and users. There are no permissions needed when adding new people.

  2. Applying for a domain for which you want to have certificates happens in the web interface.

  3. When applying for a domain, DigiCert sends an email to the 7 email addresses (admin, administrator, hostmaster, postmaster, webmaster, whois admin contact and whois-tech contact). 
    This is done in principle once per domain for three years; not for any requested certificate again.

  4. Domain Validated Server certificates are not available with Digicert. Only Organisation Validated or Extended Validated.

  5. WildCards unfortunately doesn't have free choice Subject Alternative Names and Unified Communications (SubjAltName) certificates may also contain wildcards reversed. This is a limitation with respect to Comodo especially large proxy configurations and multi-domain Web sites suffer from it.

  • What happens to our old COMODO certificates after the contract expires on June 30, 2015?
    They will be valid until the end of the period chosen when the certificate was issue (1,2 or 3 years)

  • What is the main difference between admins and users with respect to Certificates?

    Type Of
    Role
    Certificates and revocations
    AdminTrusted expertApplication, approval and request revocation
    UserActive systemApply
  • Is it possible to delete an organization after creation?
    If you are looking to edit an Organization that you have submitted for validation, you will need to contact DigiCert support and they can edit the organization details and perform validation against the new Organization. 

  • Is it better especially for validation to use the English name of our institutions?

DigiCert has no problems with either the original or the English version of the name. It is suggested that you simply go for original names first then add English names only if needed.

In case of eScience grid users, it is suggested to have only the ASCII grid organisation name validated for grid certificates and the other organisation name for all other categories (OV, CS, DS, EV) but NOT grid.

  • What is the link between concept of division and organization?

In the NREN division, a division is assigned to each legal entity. That legal entity defines its own organisation name and gets it through validation.
Occasionally they are more than one Organisation defined within the Division.

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