on 2/21/02 1:27 PM, Jeff Lasman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When Verisign first went into the business they earned their money; they > went through a lot of hoops to make sure the company was who it says it > was. > > Now Thawte does less and charges less. GeoTrust does still less and > charges still less. > > That seems to be a fair tradeoff. If you want to have a cert from a > U.S. company that knows who you are beyond a shadow of a doubt before > issuing the cert, buy from Verisign, for somewhere around us$350 or so. > If you want to buy from a South African company that does less in the > way of due diligence and charges less, buy from Thawte for us$125. If > you want to buy a GeoTrust cert from a company that verifies you can be > reached at your domain and that you have the rights to the domain as > enumerated in your registrar's whois database, buy from me for us$99 > <smile>. > Actually Thawte was bought out by Verisign in either 1999 or 2000. You can read about the Thawte/Verisign merger.
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