diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index d8831d8..ac9b57a 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 2026-02-16 - 6.2.1 - fix(smartacme,storage)
+Respect wildcard domain requests when retrieving certificates and treat empty/whitespace storage values as null in getJSON
+
+- Pass includeWildcard flag to smartAcme.getCertificateForDomain to avoid incorrectly including/excluding wildcard certificates based on whether the requested domain itself is a wildcard
+- Detect wildcard domains via domain.startsWith('*.') and set includeWildcard to false for wildcard requests
+- Treat empty or whitespace-only stored values as null in StorageManager.getJSON to avoid parsing empty strings as JSON and potential errors
+
 ## 2026-02-16 - 6.2.0 - feat(ts_web)
 add Certificate Management documentation and ops-view-certificates reference
 
diff --git a/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts b/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
index 92091d2..a84b0fa 100644
--- a/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
+++ b/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
  */
 export const commitinfo = {
   name: '@serve.zone/dcrouter',
-  version: '6.2.0',
+  version: '6.2.1',
   description: 'A multifaceted routing service handling mail and SMS delivery functions.'
 }
diff --git a/ts/classes.dcrouter.ts b/ts/classes.dcrouter.ts
index 787193a..e9038e2 100644
--- a/ts/classes.dcrouter.ts
+++ b/ts/classes.dcrouter.ts
@@ -499,7 +499,10 @@ export class DcRouter {
             // smartacme v9 handles concurrency, per-domain dedup, and rate limiting internally
             eventComms.log(`Attempting DNS-01 via SmartAcme for ${domain}`);
             eventComms.setSource('smartacme-dns-01');
-            const cert = await this.smartAcme.getCertificateForDomain(domain);
+            const isWildcardDomain = domain.startsWith('*.');
+            const cert = await this.smartAcme.getCertificateForDomain(domain, {
+              includeWildcard: !isWildcardDomain,
+            });
             if (cert.validUntil) {
               eventComms.setExpiryDate(new Date(cert.validUntil));
             }
diff --git a/ts/storage/classes.storagemanager.ts b/ts/storage/classes.storagemanager.ts
index 852bb5a..5085d89 100644
--- a/ts/storage/classes.storagemanager.ts
+++ b/ts/storage/classes.storagemanager.ts
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ export class StorageManager {
    */
   async getJSON<T = any>(key: string): Promise<T | null> {
     const value = await this.get(key);
-    if (value === null) {
+    if (value === null || value.trim() === '') {
       return null;
     }
     
diff --git a/ts_web/00_commitinfo_data.ts b/ts_web/00_commitinfo_data.ts
index 92091d2..a84b0fa 100644
--- a/ts_web/00_commitinfo_data.ts
+++ b/ts_web/00_commitinfo_data.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
  */
 export const commitinfo = {
   name: '@serve.zone/dcrouter',
-  version: '6.2.0',
+  version: '6.2.1',
   description: 'A multifaceted routing service handling mail and SMS delivery functions.'
 }