[mrweasel]

There's also a niche market for more complex certificate solutions, like the one we saw stackoverflow required: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/04/23/stackoverflow-com-the...

It's just that those solutions require actual work and capable customer support, and I don't think that's a business Symantec wants to be in.

Still I would hope that their certificate business is taken over by someone serious about SSL/TLS/certificates. I would have for Let's Encrypt to become a monopoly.

[wfunction]

Their biggest problems seemed to just stem from their arbitrary choice to use subdomains instead of subdirectories. If they just put everything on the same domain (/sites/stackoverflow, /sites/superuser, etc.) then they would literally just need 1 certificate for everything, no third-level-wildcard nonsense. Not sure what this decision to have a gazillion different domains has gained them honestly. Reddit clearly manages to work that way.