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Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by gumby on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:03PM (#15744993)
Why on earth is it only a third? What value do the other providers offer? (other than EV I mean, but most uses don't require that).
Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by morgante on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:24PM (#15745065)
Even though automated renewals are absolutely superior, as encouraged by LE, they do require some work to adopt. For a lot of businesses, it's easier to have someone manually renew every year or two than to do the migration work of setting up automated LE certs.
Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by davb on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:48PM (#15745376)
Not only setting up, but monitoring.
Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by jeffchien on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:17PM (#15745237)
Wildcard subdomains aren't supported yet (but should come in January [1]).

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-com...

Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by ocdtrekkie on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:11PM (#15745017)
It starts bearing the question though: Is one CA being over a third of the market a good thing?
Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by pishpash on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:26PM (#15745279)
Well, a third of the market that is not that important, over all. I don't see banks switching to LE to save a buck or two.
Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by perlgeek on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @07:33AM (#15747441)
I guess it's mostly inertia.

Many people who don't live in the tech news bubble like we do might not have even heard of let's encrypt, or haven't realized that they could use it. Or the bad old "never touch a running system" mantra at work.

Re:Let's Encrypt now holds 35% of the market by coldacid on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:05PM (#15745001)
Because some people/businesses are afraid of free things, and others would prefer to not have their certs rotate every 90 days (even if it's done automatically).