EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by aadlani » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 12:43 PM UTC

EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers
news.eurodns.com

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by pushrax » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:45 PM UTC

While a step in the right direction for EuroDNS, it's not really exciting at all. We need more completely free CAs.

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by slezyr » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:48 PM UTC

So, we’re giving a free, fully featured Alpha SSL certificate for every ____domain name you’ve got registered with us____.

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by _sandb_ » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

According to https://www.eurodns.com/ssl-certificate-faq/#whatisincluded

"For an additional fee you can add a wildcard to the Alpha SSL certificate meaning that the certificate can be used on an unlimited number of subdomains and servers. The wildcard option allows for additional subdomains or servers to be added in the future."

... so no wildcards for free. fyi.

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by dingaling » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

Their Alpha certs ( the type being provided in this promotion ) expire after one year.

It's not clear from their documentation whether your free single-domain cert will be renewed for free after that, so worth checking before rushing in.

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by jgrahamc » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

If I'm reading this correctly this is a certificate for a single domain registered with EuroDNS and does not include a wildcard.

Alternatively you could use CloudFlare's Universal SSL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:55 PM UTC

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Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by aadlani » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:55 PM UTC

dingaling wrote: post #5

Their Alpha certs ( the type being provided in this promotion ) expire after one year. It's not clear from their documentation whether your free single-domain cert will be renewed for free after that, so worth checking before rushing in.

Hi @dingaling, I'm working at EuroDNS and I confirm you that this is not only a promotion, but it will be free for the lifetime of your domain at EuroDNS.

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by tombrossman » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:55 PM UTC

If they had announced this before the Let's Encrypt[0] initiative it would have been more impressive, but still it is a nice gesture to offer these for the month or two that people are still buying them. I wonder if it is a preemptive move to keep customers from taking their certificates elsewhere, as you will be able to do with the Let's Encrypt certs?

Reading the rest of the announcement, It looks like they are slowly catching up to Gandi.net, who have offered free one year certs and other features (two-step verification and domain privacy) for a while now.

They are a bit behind the curve compared to better Registrars but still light years ahead of garbage like GoDaddy, etc, so good on them for offering this.

[0]https://letsencrypt.org/

Re: EuroDNS introduces free SSL certificates to customers

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Post by dtech » Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 1:56 PM UTC

According to their site, http://blog.eurodns.com/eurodns-ssl-certificates/, this is only for domains registered with them. So it's not really free.

StartCom/StarSSL has provided fully free certificates for some time: http://www.startssl.com/?app=1

edit: Title is now clearer, I believe the "to customers" portion wasn't initially there. Or I just suck at reading.