Some verified certificates are not free. As far as I know, Let’s Encrypt does not offer any ev/ov certs. I’ve worked for e-commerce sites that could not use standard dv certs like you would get from Let’s Encrypt.
Granted this is still not a good reason to give money to GoDaddy.
The company pays for it. Not my dime. The expense doesn’t seem onerous and is just to name one example probably a small fraction of what we spend on pens in a year.
And we get everything of that ilk from one vendor with one bill. It’s all managed in one place. The renewals all happen at the same time. They like that.
That’s not a good argument for GoDaddy. It just means that you and your company don’t care and are not qualified to make any claims about GoDaddy’s actual service.
Yes.
I just had to log in and check. We pay $49.99 per year for our SSL cert. Do they do surge pricing or something…?
I mean, SSL certs are free now:
https://letsencrypt.org/
https://certbot.eff.org/
Maybe not worth $50 a year to change your setup but there’s no reason to pay for them anymore.
Some verified certificates are not free. As far as I know, Let’s Encrypt does not offer any ev/ov certs. I’ve worked for e-commerce sites that could not use standard dv certs like you would get from Let’s Encrypt.
Granted this is still not a good reason to give money to GoDaddy.
The company pays for it. Not my dime. The expense doesn’t seem onerous and is just to name one example probably a small fraction of what we spend on pens in a year.
And we get everything of that ilk from one vendor with one bill. It’s all managed in one place. The renewals all happen at the same time. They like that.
That’s not a good argument for GoDaddy. It just means that you and your company don’t care and are not qualified to make any claims about GoDaddy’s actual service.