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seahorse
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 Posted - 30 March 2005 : 12:17:07
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Hi Folks,
Has anyone ever purchased an SSL certificate from Godaddy?
I'm just curious to know what your experience has been like.
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 30 March 2005 : 12:32:10
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withanhdammit
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 31 March 2005 : 02:23:31
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Do they give you an SSL certificate for your site, or do they give you a protected directory? I've had ISPs say "Yeah, we've got SSL", but then when you use it, you have to use https://www.ispname.com/securesubfolder/mydomain and I'm curious if you get to use https://www.mydomain.com with GoDaddy.
Thanks!
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sr_erick
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 31 March 2005 : 03:15:02
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| Yes of course. You pay for a certificate for a domain name of your choice which you own and apply it to that domain. Not like the SSL your ISP says they offer. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 31 March 2005 : 07:39:45
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quote:
Originally posted by withanhdammit
Do they give you an SSL certificate for your site, or do they give you a protected directory? I've had ISPs say "Yeah, we've got SSL", but then when you use it, you have to use https://www.ispname.com/securesubfolder/mydomain and I'm curious if you get to use https://www.mydomain.com with GoDaddy.
Thanks!
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Thats Shared SSL, which is what many customers actually want.. not everyone wants to spend between $30 and $300 per year for their own SSL Cert. |
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Podge
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Ireland
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 31 March 2005 : 17:59:13
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You can't beat GoDaddy's basic SSL Cert for $29
Yeah you can .. try $9.95 for a Single Root Cert with 99% browser compatability (probably very little difference in what Godaddy's selling for $20 more). |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
Australia
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Posted - 01 April 2005 : 01:01:08
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I brought a GoDaddy cert once, and they let it all go through, took the money and when I gave it the .com.au domain it said no and I had to get a refund from GoDaddy, but they charged me $US20 and only give me back $US15 at the time. Never going to by their certs again.
I would like to know where the $9.95 ones are as well Gremlin...
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 01 April 2005 : 03:12:01
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 01 April 2005 : 03:25:05
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What's the point of the shared SSL certs? Is it just encryption?
I thought that more expensive certs actually verified that you were who you said you were as an individual or business. The shared certs don't do that do they?
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 01 April 2005 : 06:02:00
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| A Shared Cert wouldn't verify that particular person/company no, but the host would still have been verified by the issuer. Shared Certs are often used by sites who for instance require a secure logon for the website, but aren't taking any form of financial transaction and therefore the "verification" isn't quite so important. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 02 April 2005 : 17:19:50
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Thanks, Gremlin.
So a site using an SSL cert, might not be who he or she claims to be.
I suppose that most people just look at the lock symbol and assume that everything is OK. |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Posted - 03 April 2005 : 00:05:48
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Everything passed between the client and the server will be encrypted no matter who you are or what SSL cert you have. The more expensive certs e.g. provided by Thawte and Verisign verify people and companies by obtaining extra data.
Anyone could buy a domain and get an SSL cert. It doesnt mean that the domain represents a particular company.
Thawte and Verisign (for example) require extra documentation to prove who you are before issuing one of their more exponsive certs. |
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