I agree with Jordan.  GoDaddy certs are essentially Verisign certs.  You
should not have any trust issues with them.

Timothy Fisher

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Jordan Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I'm going to have to call BS on the godaddy accusation... I'm
> relatively certain godaddy buys certificates from verisign. Please
> tell us which browsers will not recognize these certs.
>
> Jordan Fowler
> (619) 339-6752
>
> On Apr 30, 2009, at 7:42, Scott Hodson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > recognizing a cert != trusting a cert's issuer (CA)
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:39 PM, liquid_rails <[email protected]
> > > wrote:
> >>
> >> It looks like they all have ~99% browser recognition
> >>
> >> http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp?ci=9039
> >>
> >> On Apr 29, 2:46 pm, Scott Hodson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> If' you're going to do **serious** commerce don't use GoDaddy.  Some
> >>> browsers don't recognize GoDaddy as a trustworthy CA and will throw
> >>> security warnings to the user.  If you can afford a little extra $
> >>> to
> >>> avoid losing some orders, stick with Verisign, Thawte, Entrust,
> >>> etc...
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Nick Zadrozny
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> TierraNet has certificates for $35/year. Ever so slightly more
> >>>> than GoDaddy,
> >>>> but, really, what's $5, or even $15?
> >>>> https://www.tierra.net/products/ssl
> >>>> I really like TierraNet because they're local (started by UCSD
> >>>> alums, even)
> >>>> and the quality of their account management interface and
> >>>> customer support
> >>>> is incomparably better than GoDaddy. You'd be surprised how much
> >>>> easier it
> >>>> is to buy domains without wading through piles of ridiculous ads.
> >>>> I don't use their hosting (yawn) or DNS servers (hard to beat DNS
> >>>> Made
> >>>> Easy), but I moved all of my domains there from GoDaddy and Gandi
> >>>> a few
> >>>> years back and it's been well worth the switch.
> >>>> --
> >>>> Nick Zadrozny
> >>>
> >>
> >
> > >
>
> >
>

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