The cost of the actual signing is pretty much zero, but there were definitely pa...

Someone1234 · on April 20, 2015

Indeed.

But couldn't it be ad support for how little it costs? Just watch this 5 minute video then get a free domain certificate.

_clhx · on April 20, 2015

I see the point you're trying to make.

I think we need a NFP org to become a trusted auth for these types of things. No way is GoDaddy going to help us here..

rspeer · on April 20, 2015

You want the future of the Web to be Web developers watching insipid 5-minute videos before they can get anything done?

Someone1234 · on April 20, 2015

I'd take that over what we have now in a heartbeat.

My time isn't worthless, but for a personal web-site I am already "wasting" tons of time on it, and what is 5 minutes more? Better than a $60/year certificate.

StartSSL is too terrible. Let's Encrypt doesn't exist. And CloudFlare requires you to use their entire service for the free certificates.