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Originally Posted by Paul

Try taking off your tin foil hat for a few minutes.
News sites do not need to use https, of course, they can choose to.


I dont really know what you are trying to say here.
A single SSL certificate can have many alt names, hundreds if you are daft enough (our own cerificate here has nine).
You can also get wildcard certificates to cover all the sub domains on a main domain.

It used to be that you didn't have to put the main cert name in the alt DNS names now you do. At work where we gen our own certificates with own signing authority (internal) it's meaning that sometimes we need to get new certificates as newer browsers flag up that the site isn't in cert Alt DNS names. Mostly not a problem but the software we use in one case only allows one name in the Alt DNS names so we have to put main site name in. Now add we have multiple domains as well and it all gets fun if you want to make it easy to access site(s).