[Coco] Finding websites was:cloud-9Tech

[Joe]

Actually they do, I use godaddy certs on my mail and internet servers at 
work because they are cheap and IE does respect them.
as for using them as a registrar, we'll don't know bout that.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gene heskett" <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Finding websites was:cloud-9Tech



> On Friday, December 03, 2010 05:38:34 pm Aaron Wolfe did opine:

>

>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Reverend Fuzzy

>>

>> <cmayeux at msbministries.org> wrote:

>> >> -----Original Message-----

>> >> I wouldn't call $100's or even $1000 over years cheap.

>> >

>> > Where have you been buying domain names? �I want to make sure I don't

>> > Go there by accident. �All my domain names are running $12/year.

>>

>> I think his point was that over time, it adds up.

>>

>> BTW.. it seems you get what you pay for with domain registration.

>> GoDaddy may be cheap but they often also seem to find reasons to hold

>> your domain hostage and require money for it's release.  It's happened

>> to personal friends and in our community to coco3.com.

>>

> They also think they run the whole internet.  My ISP these days is 

> shentel,

> and they maintain a mail server I _could_ use, and which I do scan at

> fetchmails timed intervals.  But I don't really use it because of this in

> the fetchmail.log:

>

> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to get local 

> issuer certificate

> fetchmail: This means that the root signing certificate (issued for 

> /O=mail.shentel.net/OU=Domain Control Validated/CN=mail.shentel.net) is 

> not in

> the trusted CA certificate locations, or that c_rehash needs to be run on 

> the certificate directory. For details, please see the documentation of --

> sslcertpath and --sslcertfile in the manual page.

> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate not trusted

> fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: unable to verify the 

> first certificate

> fetchmail: Warning: the connection is insecure, continuing anyways. 

> (Better use --sslcertck!)

>

> Traceing the certificate they use discloses it was issued by godaddy.com.

>

> The 'root certs' file is updated at various intervals by pclos, and the

> ICANN folks, who maintain the root certificates, do not and have never

> recognized a godaddy certificate as a legit certification.  Repeated

> squawks to shentel have not made the point that godaddy leaves a very

> bad taste in the rest of the internets collective mouths.

>

> I don't imagine the root certs files windows uses recognizes godaddy

> either.

>

> AIUI, dyndns, which I use for free, is trying to sell me an upgraded

> service that includes several domain names, for $12/year. Anyone needing

> a web domain, such as for a group like us, should investigate the use of

> dyndns for that service.

>

> -- 

> Cheers, Gene

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> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."

> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)

> I hope you millionaires are having fun!  I just invested half your life

> savings in yeast!!

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