On Sun, Mar 31 2013 13:53:27 +0100, Benjie Gillam wrote:
> StartSSL are great for regular domains (though I've not used any of
> their paid services yet), but they refuse to support single character
> domains such as "p.im" - according to their support team it because of
> fears of misuse of the domain. I'm unconvinced by this argument, I
> think they were just fobbing me off.
Yes, this. I tried getting a cert for z.gg with StartSSL as a test
before going for a paid service for work. This was the response, from
the founder of the company, about why they don't do support short
domains:
> This policy has been in place basically since ever and we'll probably
> will not support it. We could perhaps in the Extended Validation
> level, but that's a significant verification process.
Based on that, I decided that they had fallen at the first hurdle and
went with a Comodo PositiveSSL wildcard for work.
http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo/positivessl-wildcard-certificate.aspx
I have no complaints about the Comodo cert.
--
Paul.
