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Free AlphaSSL Wildcard and regular SSLs
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The order was unsuccessful.
In the submission of the order page has been waiting, waiting, waiting, but can not submit success.
Confirmed. Got same problem
In mean time get letsencrypt
Fixed.
Incredible! I was once again successful!
It's also free
Yep. Can confirm that seems to be the issue why the confirmation messages weren't getting sent.
Can't get the confirmation e-mail for re-hash.org domain. It has the public whois, the e-mail is a gmail. What can be wrong at this point?
Indeed seems strange... does the website gives the option to send to the confirmation to that email ?
I got one a couple months ago with private WHOIS. I wonder if Globalsign/Singlehop simply caught up with this offer and blocked it. If yes, it was nice while it lasted!
Nope! Got one few hours ago... Not blocked!
Yes, I was trying to select several different mails, including the Gmail one, but didn't receive any confirmation e-mail anyway.
I tried once again and it worked. Thank you very much!
Well, just received this email
Let's see what will happen going forward
This is going to be fun.. You could argue that resale dictates a "sale" has been made (Exchange of funds / goods / etc), and your not making a sale? Or you could blag the fact you have a trillion domains and you've decided to cert them all? :P
Good luck!
Quite possible that one of those providers who bundle such wildcard certificate with their VPS plans or those who resell these free certificates for a few dollars went to SG to bitch about it.
Alright, weekend over, time to get back to life. Just sent this back, just so you all know, I don't wish to spend my time fighting this as I have better things to do in life so worst outcome is that I simply shut down the service.
With cPanel and Let's Encrypt among others offering free SSL-certificates that don't have any restriction for which network they are being hosted on, this wouldn't be the end of the world or have as much impact as it would have a few years ago.
If you use the certificate for any live site, look at this as a warning that your certificate might get revoked in the near future, and plan for that. For instance move to Let's Encrypt or set up monitoring, checking if the certificate is revoked, just make sure your not caught with your pants down.
do you have any numbers on how many certs were issued through your page? just curious.
This is what I use: https://gist.github.com/romanrm/bb95e209c4a75efc32b0e5d46d0881e8
About 9k Wildcard-certs and I guess a few thousand not wildcard-certs.
wow...
if @Fidde now asks 5€ per certificate he will be happy man.
Lets hope you used fake details when signing up and they did not send you a notice before use, thats going to be EXPENSIVE!
Nope, they also have my CC-details and they even bill me automatically
I haven't found anything in their terms about it and I've paid for "Unlimited SSL-certificates", also, it's probably going to be more expensive for Globalsign to revoke all the certs so the worst they'll probably do is shut down my account.
I have the option to close my CC for Internet transactions and I have a hard time thinking that SH will try to use legal actions, I have as far as I know not broken any law. Also, SH must have a unlimited deal with GlobalSign, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to offer such a service.
If you are on a cpanel server, just use letsencrypt.org, free free free! I use this for all our test sites and staging environments etc. Super easy to use, just click one button!
@Fidde,
It was excellent while it lasted. I/we appreciate your effort and awesome contribution. Totally worth it. Just dont put yourself at risk, its not worth it.
Thank you for everything!
@Fidde Do you have the Script uploaded anywhere ?? Github ??
Oh well, this was nice while it lasted but I figured it had to end eventually. Thanks for running it all this time, Fidde.
@chateaux everyone knows about letsencrypt, but it does not issue wildcards. If you're going to suggest getting separate certificates for each subdomain, that's not a new idea to anyone either. Wildcards are still nice if you can get them.
@Fidde thanks for everything. Like @MikePT said, I guess it's time to call it a day
Thanks for keeping this up and everything!
Although letsencrypt.org exists, wildcard certs are still quite invaluable for some use cases. I use it for my Sandstorm.io installation, so I probably would have to scrap that if they revoke my wildcard