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[Jamyn Shanley <jshanley AT gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Stephan Jauernick <stephan AT stejau.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Its neither self signed not prevents registration!
> Its a CACert signed cert, cacert is a free CA.

I didn't say it was self-signed, I said CAcert certificates are not
recognized by most browsers.
It is not a good idea for a registrar to have warnings presented on
their SSL pages by default.


> You are free to make donations in the area of a few hundred euros just for
> ssl certificates if you want a change, and then theres still the issue that
> i personally doesnt want to invest that much money into a big pile of
> snakeoil.

I don't know where you buy your SSL certificates, but they are $9/year
through Namecheap (just an example).

There is some expense to being a registrar. I don't think $10/year for
a certificate is too much to ask of someone who is going to manage a
TLD. Obviously you disagree, but my position is quite reasonable.
Services that are 'broken by default' for the majority of clients
should be fixed.