www.freessl.com - appears to be a "division" of www.geotrust.com - the
Renewal Prcing for freessl is listed as "TrueSite" in their table comparing
Verisign & Thawte - rather than a dollar amount.
"TrueSite" is a Service/product sold by GeoTrust - "Promotionally priced at
$59" - which appears to be an online Cert verification service (amongst
other things) -
So - A renewal of your FreeSSL Sert looks to be dependent upon signing up
for theit $59 per year service - just remember that the $59 is a
"Promotional Price" - In 1 year's time - it is quite likely to be around
say... $99
But Free is good for a website you need a cert for - expecially if you are
planning on just making it a short term site (Yes, there are legit uses for
such animals as well as all the illegal ones) - I wonder what happens if you
just change the hostname every year - get a new free cert etc. ..... - I
think I will try the "Free" process on a site I don't really need it
for..... to see what the full process is.
Also - Their Certs are NOT accepted by NETSTCAPE - or any other browser I
assume - they ONLY claim Compatability with IE 5.01 and above...... - approx
70% of the market - so if you wan to "annoy 1/3 of your potential
customers......."
Len Thomson
L.A. Consulting Ltd
Auckland
New Zealand
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Warren
Sent: Sunday, 5 August 2001 4:54
To: William X. Walsh; Jonathan Wray
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sergei Kolodka
Subject: Re: Re[3]: Web certificate pricing?
> Speaking of SSL certs, has anyone checked out
> http://www.freessl.com/ yet?
They are charging a "small fee" for renewal, but no information on what that
charge is...
Looks interesting though.
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