US Patent 10516542 Digital certificate issuance and monitoring

A certificate authority receives a request to issue a digital certificate from a customer. In response to the request, the certificate authority determines a network endpoint to be specific to the digital certificate that is to serve information usable to determine whether the digital certificate is valid. The certificate authority issues, to the customer, a digital certificate that specifies a network address for the network endpoint and records information about requests made to the network endpoint to obtain the information usable to determine whether the digital certificate is valid.