# Clarification regarding the sub-domains rate limit

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-regarding-the-sub-domains-rate-limit/179657>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 18, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-regarding-the-sub-domains-rate-limit/179657 "2022-06-18T15:37:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![noamway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@noamway](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/noamway)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-regarding-the-sub-domains-rate-limit/179657/1 "2022-06-18T15:37:22Z")

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Hi,

In this page:

> **[Rate Limits - Let's Encrypt](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/)**
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> Let’s Encrypt provides rate limits to ensure fair usage by as many people as possible. We believe these rate limits are high enough to work for most people by default. We’ve also designed them so renewing a certificate almost never hits a...

It's not clear what will happen when my account hit the 50-per-week limit for sub-domains.

Does all the account will be limit from that point, or only the top domains of those sub-domains?  
Can I still order new SSLs for other domains name?

Thanks,

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**Author:** ![danb35](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/danb35/32/70869_2.png) [@danb35](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/danb35)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-regarding-the-sub-domains-rate-limit/179657/2 "2022-06-18T15:47:48Z")

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It's a per-domain limit. So if you own [example.com](http://example.com), and you generate 50 different certs for [example.com](http://example.com) within a week, you'll hit that rate limit. It won't affect your ability to create certs for [example.org](http://example.org), though.

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**Author:** ![MikeMcQ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/mikemcq/32/52772_2.png) [@MikeMcQ](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/MikeMcQ)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-regarding-the-sub-domains-rate-limit/179657/3 "2022-06-18T15:57:13Z")

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Adding on to danb35 comment ...

It won't affect your ability to renew a cert either. An existing cert for `domain0.example.com` could be renewed any time (\*) even if you created `domain1.example.com` thru `domain50.example.com` in the same week.

(\*) subject to the 5 duplicates per week rate limit

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/original/3X/c/a/ca6c06ea1ea201324bba7048c6841ce60236468d.png) [@system](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/clarification-regarding-the-sub-domains-rate-limit/179657/4 "2022-07-18T15:58:05Z")

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