ImageResizer license for website with one domain per language - imageresizer

When purchasing Performance licenses, the ImageResizer website states that it comes with "1 wildcard domain".
I was under the impression that Performance licenses apply to multiple domains, if those domains are simply aliases for the same website?
In this case, the different domains are used to separate different language versions of a website:
tempuri.com -> English website
tempuri.se -> Swedish website
This is instead of using a common domain and URL prefixes, something like:
tempuri.com/en -> English
tempuri.com/se -> Swedish
In the first case, would we need 1 license per domain?
Also, if the domains aren't exactly the same (depending on domain availability) like...
tempuri.com -> English
tempuri-sweden.se -> Swedish
tempuri-denmark.dk -> Danish
...would we then require 3 licenses to support the three languages?
Thanks!

Performance licenses include exactly 1 domain; they are tied to the HTTP HOST header that ImageResizer receives. While subdomains are included, unrelated domains are not. All documentation is very clear on this point - it is a domain license, not a site or website or server license. http://imageresizing.net/plugins/editions/performance
ImageResizer Elite licenses are DRM-free and can be used on an unlimited number of domains.

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Magento multiple stores, same installation, 3 checkout, 3 domains, 1 hosting: how to install SSL?

I have read about everything about this situation and had very different recommendations and read many differents scenarios from 2007 to 2010. But nothing exactly like my case even here on stackoverflow, so I'm here to ask the real experts. Considering this:
website1.com
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- domain name: simplehelix
- main magento installation (1.3.2.4)
- SSL installed
- paypal PRO (credit card taken directly on this site)
website2.com
- hosting: none
- domain name: goddady
- DNS/nameserver: to simplehelix servers
- folder called /website2/ that loads magento
- paypal PRO (credit card taken directly on this site)
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Joel
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Sharing a Magento installation, talking about the DNS, etc, is not relevant.
Buy the SSL certificates, get your webhost (it looks like you're using SimpleHelix for hosting all of the websites) to install them all for you, then change the secure URL in the Magento admin for each of your stores (use the dropdown in the configuration area to change the configuration scope from Global to each store in turn) to the appropriate URL, presumably https://www.website{1,2,3}.com from http://www.website{1,2,3}.com.
Easy :)
Sounds like you need to think of Magento terminology 'stores' or 'websites' - with 'stores' you can have lots of them on the same SSL, sharing the same checkout. However, if you have built your sites with 'websites' then you cannot have them all go to the same checkout and you will need multiple IP addresses.
It is relatively simple to move your hosting to a VPS that supports more than one IP address, although check before you leap. It is also possible to move your 'stores' to a single 'website' in Magento.
Ok, it seems that the easiest way to do this was to buy 2 new hosting accounts at my hosting provider and then buy SSL on both and ask them to redirect to the Magento installation. It worked, but it cost 2x hosting account that I do not use at all...

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basecamp, to manage projects
highrise, to manage contacts
backpack, like a wiki
they use different domains for each application (basecamphq.com, highrisehq.com, etc)
in basecamp, this is the address of a particular comment for a post in a project of my company (acme) https://acme.basecamphq.com/projects/431678/posts/2964581/comments#5854236
if 37signals had chosen to host all the applications under their domain using folders (eg 37signals.com/basecamp/..., how would you design the paths RESTfully?
Um, how about something like
http://www.37signals.com/[PRODUCTNAME]/projects/431678/posts/2964581/comments#5854236
Not quite sure what you're asking, really.