Comments on: GoDaddy Changes SSL Policy Without Warning

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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:52:22 +0000

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By: Alicia from Go Daddy

Alicia from Go Daddy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:54:12 +0000

We care very much about our customers! In fact, we contacted Steve after we saw this article. Larry – we’ll be in touch soon.

Just a little background. The Certificate Authority Browser Forum has published new requirements for secure certificates. Because we’re members of this organization we’re supporting this change by requiring 2048-bit length for new and renewing certs. You can read more about it here: http://help.godaddy.com/article/5619

If you have questions we’d really like to talk to you! Please contact our SSL support team 24/7 at 480-505-8852.

By: ashish

ashish — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:16:39 +0000

I would try Thawte or GeoTrust

By: Larry Blische

Larry Blische — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:14:15 +0000

I’m in the same boat with a cert needed for a Watchguard X5500e Firewall. I asked godaddy how to get a refund and found out I can revoke the cert within 30 days but they take a $15 service fee from the refund amount. Not happy. Anyone have a good replacement for godaddy?

By: AskApache

AskApache — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:05:57 +0000

Man that is one of the roughest things I could imagine happening to someone responsible for a site. What a nightmare.

I got lucky and was able to start fresh with 2048 bit certificates, which I feel better about using anyway, I’m also lucky in that I don’t use much of anything other than devices that run linux. Including some cisco devices and other proprietary systems like wireless routers that I setup to run embedded linux.

That is the way to go if you really want to avoid headaches, sure it’s easy to just throw money at a problem and purchase proprietary solutions, but these headaches inevitably come up.

Godaddy has had an awful reputation for almost as long as I can remember, they’ve been around forever and have always had the image of being rather spammer-like with all their ads and tricks.. But honestly it’s tough to beat their SSL in terms of price and features if you are familiar with the shell.

My only thought to fixing such a problem as you are describing would be to setup tunnelling. Whether that be using VPN’s or encapsulating one connection within another, that would be my only thought..

Good luck and really liked the articulate description.. I hate it when internet companies treat internet savvy customers like this.

By: SSL Angela

SSL Angela — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:15:07 +0000

Great advice. I dont know how many times I have to tell people the very same things. Glad I’m not the only one.