----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Woodcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [domains-gen] Verisign buys Geotrust ?
>Becomming an authority is a bit of a problem because you have to get >yourself trusted by web browser on everybody's desktop. >The question begging then is, if geotrust wanted to be bought, why didn't >tucows do the buying? :-) I considered getting into this a few years ago and the cost of being signed by one of the trusted root certs (so we could issue chain certs like Comodo or Godaddy) was going to be around $100,000. If we had done it we could have made our money back selling domains at $50 to $100, but since then the "street price" on certs has dropped and we would have been in serious trouble (given the substantial development costs involved). It is very difficult to justify high cert prices when end users see Godaddy doing a three year cert for $57. The only reason I get away with it is that we handle all the installation and provide an IP address for the site. This simplifies the whole process for customers but its still leaving us only making $10 on the Geotrust certs. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
