[ic] Verisign -- please vote with your feet!

[Ed LaFrance]

At 03:10 PM 9/30/2003 +0800, you wrote:
> > > At 12:22 PM 9/28/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > >> Quoting Chris Wenham (cwenham at synesmedia.com):
> > >> > On Sunday 28 September 2003 07:40, scott martin wrote:
> > >> > > Hi
> > >> > >
> > >> > > We currently have a merchant account with Bank America as a
> > >> bricks &
> > >> > > mortar store, who would you recommend, for a payment gateway &
> > >> > > ssl certificate? We are in the very early stages of setting up
> > >> interchange.
> > >> >
> > >> >  Authorize.Net are a good gateway, and so are
> > NetBilling. These are
> > >> two that I
> > >> > have experience with. Netbilling doesn't have direct support in
> > >> Interchange
> > >> > but I wrote a payment module for it myself that's here:
> > >> >
> > >> >  http://www.synesmedia.com/twiki/bin/view/Cyc/NetBilling
> > >> >
> > >> >  I've also heard that NetBilling has an "Authorize.Net emulation
> > >> mode" so it
> > >> > can be used with Interchange's Authorize.Net module, but
> > I haven't
> > >> tried
> > >> > that.
> > >> >
> > >> >  Comodo (http://www.comodogroup.com/) do security
> > certificates for
> > >> cheaper
> > >> > than Verisign or their subsidiary Thawte. I have one customer who
> > >> uses them
> > >> > and is happy. The main disadvantage is that you need to install a
> > >> new root
> > >> > certificate on your web server, and it works in slightly
> > less than
> > >> 100% of
> > >> > all browsers.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> These are the choices I am making now as well.
> > >
> > > I actually moved away from the Verisign group of ruined
> > companies back
> > > when they bought out Network Solutions, over a couple of years ago,
> > > and I began to receive what has to qualify as the most abysmal
> > > customer non-service ever. I saw the light then. I've moved
> > nearly all
> > > my domain registrations to godaddy.com, whom I would recommend to
> > > anyone, and I never suggest that a customer purchase a
> > verisign cert
> > > or get a Payflow Pro account.
> > >
> > > I have several clients using the Comodo SSL certificate and they are
> > > quite happy with it; the geotrust QuickSSL product
> > (geotrust.com) is
> > > also quite good, and they have a 10-minute fully automated approval
> > > process, which is handy when you gotta have it right now.
> > >
> >
> > I really like GeoTrust. Very fast, very cheap. $25 from Rackshack.net.
> >
> > Josh
> >
>
>So do I. the best part is how they're not terribly stringent with regards to
>the details you enter. I've typed in all SORTS of crap, and a few minutes
>later, I have my cert. it's great!

Hmmm - that sure sounded sarcastic. True, they don't make you sign and fax 
documents to their office, but I think they do a reasonable job of 
verifying that you had administrative control of the domain name, and 
(whenever possible) that you are the registrant, or a representative of the 
same.

- Ed

>

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