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Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by pavel_lishin » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:46 PM UTC

lamnk wrote: post #25

pavel_lishin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I see no problem here. Really, you don't see a problem with their "better ask forgiveness than permission" tactic?

I'm playing devil advocate here: You should do research before you buy things. And it seems that the author knew Godaddy is notorious for shady practices.

"Caveat Emptor" doesn't excuse shady business practices. If I lose my money to a scam artist, I may be partially to blame, but that does not mean that the scam artist is excused, from a moral point of view.

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by CoffeeDregs » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:47 PM UTC

Okay, I use godaddy for domains and DNS. Never had a problem with them. But these 'godaddy sucks' posts and the godaddy buyout are starting to worry me. Who would you recommend as a replacement for registration and DNS?

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by CoffeeDregs » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:48 PM UTC

Okay, I use godaddy for domains and DNS. Never had a problem with them. But these 'godaddy sucks' posts and the godaddy buyout are starting to worry me. Who would you recommend as a replacement for registration and DNS?

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by forcer » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:49 PM UTC

johnsea wrote: post #19

sandaru1 wrote: post #14

Any recommendations on where to buy a good ssl certificate?

gandi.net if you register the domain with them, a standard ssl cert is included. Not sure if they issue certificates if the domain is somwhere else.

DigiCert. I am currently going through the EV validation process with them and they are absolutely briliant. Very quick customer service (including online chat), well designed and easy to use website, good prices. What's more to ask?

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by colinprince » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:50 PM UTC

sandaru1 wrote: post #14

Any recommendations on where to buy a good ssl certificate?

For a free cert check out:

https://github.com/ioerror/duraconf/blob/master/startssl/REA...

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by jivejones » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:50 PM UTC

I had the same problem, signed up last year, set it up a month later and now I'm getting time to renew emails. Also although its 'easy' to disable the auto-renew I've had products that still renewed after disabling the auto-renew.

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by jivejones » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:53 PM UTC

RyanKearney wrote: post #8

>I called GoDaddy Support this Sunday afternoon. While it was a long distance call, I only had to wait about a minute to reach a person in their Billing Department. They were happy to refund me the $49.99 after I deleted the cert and sent me the instructions to disable auto-renewals I linked to above. This times 1000 I experienced this exact same issue. I was pretty pissed to say the least but I called, got a human i…

yeah, even though godaddy does some weird stuff sometimes they do get it resolved quickly and without trouble.

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by gst » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:53 PM UTC

I never understood why GoDaddy has such a monopoly-like status - even in the startup scene. I've only used their services once (because someone transfered a domain to me and prefered to do this as GoDaddy-internal transfer), but the first thing I did was transfering the domain to another registrar (the one that I typically also use for my other domains).

Reasons why I wouldn't use GoDaddy:

GoDaddy is not really one of the cheapest registrars.

I find their pricing "tactics" (as also mentioned in the article) very questionable.

Their whole website isn't just really appealing to me (I know, very subjective).

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by stanleydrew » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:54 PM UTC

CoffeeDregs wrote: post #32

Okay, I use godaddy for domains and DNS. Never had a problem with them. But these 'godaddy sucks' posts and the godaddy buyout are starting to worry me. Who would you recommend as a replacement for registration and DNS?

Its not hard to find viable alternatives. There was a big thread on it about a year ago if I remember correctly.

I use name.com and have been very happy. A lot of people here use namecheap. I bet other people will reply to this comment with more options.

Re: GoDaddy SSL Cert Scam

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Post by jbyers » Mon, Jul 11, 2011, 3:55 PM UTC

The author's first point is incorrect.

GoDaddy doesn't take a month off the length of the cert. They do start sending you reminders 60 days ahead that say your cert needs to be renewed in 30 days, but you get your full extra year. I've had the pleasure of doing this dozens of times for our certificates, the last thing we buy from GoDaddy after moving our domain business elsewhere.