Re:Termination of StartCom business
by linkmotif on Sunday December 03, 2017 @01:33PM
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I had an interesting experience with these guys. About 3 years ago I registered the domain "getmoneymakemoney.com" and got a free StartSLL cert from them. Three days later they revoked it because they said the domain sounded like a scam site. I called them and tried arguing to no avail. I said it was just an adaptation of line from a rap song and hosted my personal blog (which it did!) but they didn't care. Go figure. Never understood why they cared so much about my site but then accrued all the negative publicity they did.
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Note that these are not the same people. StartCom was sold to WoSign, and it is WoSign who terminated StartCom business after ruining the StartCom name. StartCom actually tried to be good net citizens.
Well, besides charging ludicrous amounts of money for certificate revocations in light of major internet events..
I've got similar experience. It turned out my (four letter) domain is one letter away from some other domain and was detected as a typosquatting. Only way to get certificate from them would be to undergo Extended Verification.
Re:Termination of StartCom business
by sillysaurus3 on Sunday December 03, 2017 @02:24PM
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I like the spirit behind this idea, but in practice I guess it's tricky.
"gail.com" is probably one of the most valuable typo squats, but it's also someone's name.