[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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