Certificate Transparency Check¶
Searches the public Certificate Transparency logs (via crt.sh) for all certificates ever issued for your domain. CT logs are an open register — every CA must record issued certificates there.
| Check | What is checked |
|---|---|
| Certificate count | How many certificates exist in total, how many were issued in the last 90 days, which CAs issued them? |
| Unknown CAs | Do all certificates come from known CAs (Let's Encrypt, DigiCert, Sectigo, …)? Unknown issuers can indicate unauthorized certificates (warn). |
| Expiring certificates | Does one of the found certificates expire in the next 30 days? |
| Subdomains | Which subdomains appear in the certificates? CT logs often reveal forgotten or internal subdomains. |
| Reachability | Which of the found subdomains still respond to HTTP(S)? Entries no longer reachable are candidates for cleanup. |
Subdomains are public
Everything in a certificate is visible to anyone via CT logs — including
staging., intern. or vpn. subdomains. Wildcard certificates
(*.example.com) avoid this.