[Sussex] Switching from HTTP to HTTPS

[Al Bennett]

I hope you don't mind me dredging this up...

>>> Godaddy are highly suspect - they revoke DNS et.al without hesitation.
>>> and have caused nightmares for far too many honest folks for this to be
>>> a one off mistakes. If you rely upon the cert/DNS for business I would
>>> not take the godaddy risk.

I found this today and thought of this thread:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/myspace_alleged.html

As it's about GoDaddy acting less than politely and as it was topical I 
thought I'd share it here.

It seems a bit like using a thermo-nuclear warhead to crack a nut but maybe 
that's just me.

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nico Kadel-Garcia" <nkadel at gmail.com>
To: <lug at beer.org.uk>; "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" 
<sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Switching from HTTP to HTTPS


> Vic wrote:
>>> Godaddy are highly suspect - they revoke DNS et.al without hesitation.
>>> and have caused nightmares for far too many honest folks for this to be
>>> a one off mistakes. If you rely upon the cert/DNS for business I would
>>> not take the godaddy risk.
>>>
>>
>> They have a strong anti-spam statement, but have been found desidedly
>> lacking when it comes to doing anything about spammers, to boot. I'd be
>> suspicious, too...
>>
>> I generally sign all my own certificates - because I can expect anyone
>> using my services to trust my certs. But if you're really pushed, you
>> might like to try http://cert.startcom.org/ - I've not used them yet, but
>> their claims are impressive, and they're RHEL rebuilders :-)
>>
>> Vic.
>>
> I can see staying out of the spam hunting: the time investment in blocking 
> spammers or accidentally cutting off customers when spam is forged is such 
> a fiscal risk, and their costs so low, I'm afraid I couldn't expect them 
> ot be aggressive.
>
> But what DNS errors or anti-foss are you seeing from them? I had no 
> problem with them, admittedly from the US.
>
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