$1.99 SSL certificates offered by Namecheap

[devmach]

NOT related with their ssl campaign but : What are the other trust able alternatives to Namecheap?

I love them but after they "updated" their design, every time i try to buy/renew domains I'm having nervous breakdown :

* It's impossible to find what I'm looking for.

* Facebook style panel menu ( I don't know how they calling it ) makes only sense on tablets/phones, on desktop it's just pain...

* New design uses screen real estate really bad. My screen filled with big buttons, big texts and senseless images... Information that I'm looking for is lost between them.

* Gray text on white background... Not so readable...

[nullrouted]

I've used nearly every domain registrar out there and here are the ones I'd recommend:

http://www.uniregistrar.com (two-factor, free privacy, cayman islands)

http://www.easydns.com (two-factor, canadian)

http://www.pairnic.com (super lock, requires id to unlock if you enable it)

http://www.dyn.com

http://www.namebright.com (two-factor)

http://www.name.com (two-factor)

http://www.gandi.net (two-factor)

Security is really important for your name so make sure you go with someone who offers some sort of two-factor or extra security lock.

[gkop]

I mostly use Namecheap, because, well it's cheap ;) (and also a good service). But for the domains I really care about I use https://www.pairnic.com/index.html . PairNIC provides free phone support staffed by technical folks (during business hours in Pittsburgh, PA). It's $19/year. And I use http://www.gandi.net/ for the esoteric TLD's.

[opendais]

Its pretty much:

http://www.gandi.net/

or

NameCheap

At least for me.

[warbiscuit]

I've had good experiences with name.com, price and service -wise ... the frontpage isn't as slick, but once logged in the UI is nicer. Have yet to see a registrar with an actual good interface though :|

[rafaelm]

I am also looking for a new registrar since Moniker has turned in to a shadow of it former self. First, the customer support took a nosedive. Now, they redesigned the site and its a mess.

The Namecheap redesign is also a bit messy. They have a mix of the old design plus some new interfaces. Also, we've been waiting for ages for them to implement 2 factor authentication and when they finally do it, it's an SMS only solution that's no good for those that are without constant coverage or need to travel outside the country.

[michaelmior]

This probably isn't quite what you were asking, but for DNS hosting, I'm enjoying PointDNS[1]. They give you unlimited records for one domain, which is all I've used to this point. But their rates seem quite reasonable, so I'd be happy to pay them when I have the need.

Biggest downside is that they don't support many advanced DNS features such as Anycast, GeoDNS, and DNSSEC.

[1] https://pointhq.com/

[ihuman]

I haven't used it, but I have heard that Hover is pretty good. https://www.hover.com/

[Spittie]

http://www.namesilo.com/ is my go to go for cheap .coms. I don't know about their support (never needed it) but they're fast, support 2fa and, well, are cheap :)

[espeed]

I use Enom (http://www.enom.com) or DNSimple (https://dnsimple.com), which uses Enom under the hood.

[sandstrom]

I'd recommend Gandi (both for domains and certificates).

There are some cheaper SSL-certificates, but they fairly low price, and with good UI/support.

[javajosh]

Agreed. I needed to update the email address on my account and it took me 5 minutes of focused searching to figure it out.

[tamar]

ssls.com is another trusted alternative...and it's owned by Namecheap with a different design.

Curious - are you still encountering those issues? That may be from the initial launch in January but we haven't heard about this from others. We definitely appreciate the feedback though.

Tamar, Namecheap's Community Manager

[taksintik]

This is hilarious ..I felt the same way ..especially with the auto renew section

[swampangel]

"Renewals available at regular price."

Their regular prices aren't expensive -- $9.78 for Comodo PositiveSSL and $11.90 for Geotrust RapidSSL. But it would be nice to have a moderate recurring discount instead of a one-time break.

[arkad]

What about buying the $1.99 at Namecheap and renewing it with other Certificate bought on other site? Anyone know if that would be possible?

[tedunangst]

So my choices are "perfect for securing low-volume e-commerce sites" or "great for securing small- to medium-sized sites with limited traffic".

How do I choose? What happens when I exceed a limited amount of traffic?

[andrewmunsell]

I'm guessing that these "limits" actually are just marketing-speak that refer to a couple of things that are more suited to smaller/medium sized sizes:

- Warranty amount ($10k on the PositiveSSL certificate)

- Single domain

- Only domain validation

Larger e-commerce stores may need wildcard or multiple domain certificates, a higher warranty amount, organization, or extended validation (the green bar in the address bar). There isn't any inherent limitation to bandwidth or traffic with these certificates.

[korzun]

I don't think it's traffic based, most likely they base it on:

A) Maximum insurance offered

and

B) Making sure they do not miss out on $$$ from a big customer who signs up for $5 certificate

[hackerboos]

There's no quota on traffic for an SSL cert.

[abruzzi]

I had the same question. What about one cert makes it better than the other?

[marcosdumay]

Your choice of SSL certificate makes no difference at all. Well, except that some appear green on Firefox, while some are blue, and others are white (but I think newer versions stopped doing that).

If any of them goes rouge, you're still on the line, whoever you buy from.

[mkonecny]

FYI, these do not allow you to specify a wildcard, and SSL protect your subdomains.

[korzun]

Why would a $5 certificate allow wildcards?

[gst]

Given that almost all clients support SNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) nowadays, there's not really a need anymore for wildcard certificates (if all you want to do is enable a few subdomains).

[jvehent]

http://startssl.com/ . $0/year. No bullshit.

[wlesieutre]

The revocation fee that everyone had to pay after heartbleed could be described as bullshit.

[ivraatiems]

I tried to use StartSSL to secure a small non-profit website which happened to (totally separately) process donations through PayPal, and I was unable to get them to comprehend that PayPal provides its own security and their certificate would not be involved in any monetary transactions. They insisted they couldn't authorize a certificate for an organization that dealt with money in any way, which, as far as I know, disqualifies essentially every organization ever.

So yeah, $0/year, but definitely not "no bullshit."

[Artemis2]

It's pretty bad though. Remember Heartbleed when people couldn't revoke their compromised certificates?

Also, if you read the Namecheap promotion page, they explain that they are donating $0.5 to Fight for the Future for every purchased certificate.

[iancarroll]

$60 if you want to use it commercially...

[pdw]

Well, as long as you don't want to revoke your certificate...

[ceejayoz]

Having gone through both systems, $2 isn't much to pay for a much better experience.

[evanfftf]

Thanks Namecheap for helping Reset the Net!

Please encourage other sites, companies and services you use to join too: http://resetthenet.org

[anilshanbhag]

I just bought SSL certificate for $9.99 yesterday. Wish I had seen this earlier. From my bit of research, among all the providers, SSL certificates from namecheap were the cheapest.

[karthikkolli]

It is interesting that namecheap website uses verisign signed certificates

[arpstick]

I think this is a really good example of how the ssl CA system is fundamentally broken.

[syntaxgoonoo]

Please explain?

[itistoday2]

"Oh thank you Namecheap for giving us even cheaper pay-for-insecurity certificates!"

Kinda sad. We deserve a better internet than this. Use the blockchain for free and actually secure certificates:

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain