Wildcard SSL common name - can it be called anything?

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Published on 2009-10-14T00:20:49Z Indexed on 2012/11/06 11:07 UTC
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I was just wondering if a wildcard SSL certificate necessarily needs to have a common name that contains the domain name of the sites that need the SSL certificate applied to. E.g for the following:

domain name: testdomain.com subsites: www.testdomain.com mobile.testdomain.com mytestenvironment.testdomain.com

Do i necessarily need my wildcard certificate to have a common name of *.testdomain.com?

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