As promised, here's the announcement that went out: <snip> Subject: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update [certs] - 03/14/02
Greetings - Please find following an update on OpenSRS. We have made a number of modifications to the Web Certificate registration process in the last while which should streamline identity verification and certificate issuance (this is not the end of our efforts so keep the feedback coming). Renewals: Renewals are now facilitated on the certificateregistration.com website. The buy process is the same, the codes used are the same, the process is the same except you now have the option to select 'Renew your Web Certificate' after the code is entered. If you recall the password that you created the previous year all the data will be pre-populated. Assuming no changes to the contact information all you will have to do is enter generate and submit a new CSR (Certificate Signing Request). The company for which the certificate is requested will still get a confirmation call but there should be no new document faxing required. Reminder Emails: Both the Tech contact and the Authorization Contact for the certificate are issued renewal reminder e-mails. These e-mails direct the recipient to it's Tucows OpenSRS reseller to purchase a renewal certificate. Identity Verification: Dunn & Bradstreet is now (and has been for the last couple months) performing verification for the certificates. This simplifies verification because in almost all cases there will be no faxing of documentation required. If a company does not have a D&B number it will be issued one as part of the verification process (there is no cost for this, it is just a side-effect of successful verification). There is a brief summary of the verification process on the certs.tucows.com web-site at https://certs.tucows.com/pdf/verification.pdf. Same Tech and Auth Contact: In the past there was much distress over the verification required if the Technical and Authorization contact were the same (namely third party verification). The third party verification is no longer required. If your Tech and Auth contact are the same and your organization employs less than 5 people the cert will be issued without any additional verification. If your organization employs more than 5 people, make sure you provide different names as authorization and technical contact. (A technical or authorization contact must be the name of a physical person and not a department name). Note: Entrust has informed that there have been a recurring difficulty encountered in the process. Namely make sure that the name of the company for which the certificate is being requested is also the name of the company that owns the domain name (Admin Contact in OpenSRS whois). Please remember and/or remind your customers that the organization attribute in this csr matches the organization for which you are requesting a certificate (authorizing organization) and is the organization that owns the domain name for which you are requesting this certificate. As always - thanks for your continued support of OpenSRS! Thanks - Darryl Green Tucows/OpenSRS Certs Manager </snip> Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Daminato > Sent: March 18, 2002 7:17 PM > To: Mike Allen > Cc: Kirk Fletcher; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Entrust cert renewals > > > I'm actually going to let Darryl take this (Mr. Cert), but you are > "renewing" in a sense, but you have to replace the cert since the > technology has the expiry built into the cert itself (so your customer's > browsers will give an ugly "THIS CERT HAS EXPIRED" message which makes you > look bad) > > afaik if you already own the cert, you've gone through the verification > process, so it's simpler. There was an announcement sent to all "cert" > enabled resellers; I'll dig it up and repost tomorrow. > > Charles Daminato > TUCOWS Product Manager > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mike Allen wrote: > > > I had seen a post on this list just a few days ago stating that > their was no > > such thing as a "Renewal" for certificates and that you had to buy a new > > certificate. Same, process as buying a new one.... I am sure > Charles will > > reply shortly... ;) > > > > Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.4CheapDomains.Net > > (812) 275-8425 - Office > > (815) 364-1278 - Fax > > > > *** DeerSearch.Com - Get Targeted Traffic to your site for > as little as > > 1 penny per visit! > > http://www.DeerSearch.Com Is currently paying $6.00 > per sale to all > > affiliates! > > > > *** PWDOnLine.Com - Looking for someone to design your web-site? Here we > > are! > > http://www.PwdOnline.Com > > > > *** ProNetworks.Biz - Get a DSL, SDSL or T-Span network for well below > > others prices! > > http://www.ProNetworks.Biz > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kirk Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 3:22 PM > > Subject: Entrust cert renewals > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > When we started selling certs, we were advised that a > > > renewal process would be in place before the time came > > > - so that we could handle renewals (and the customer > > > would remain ours). There was also an indication that > > > the wholesale pricing for renewals was to be competitive. > > > > > > Well... the time is getting closer. How do we handle > > > renewals? What's the charge going to be? Is there any > > > further checking to be done for renewals (eg, checking > > > that the company still exists), or are renewals straight > > > forward since all the checking was done when the cert > > > was purchased? If its a simple process, then are the > > > renewals cheaper than new certs? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Kirk Fletcher > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
