Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > On Thursday 25 March 2004 10.12, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: >> [...] decided to buy certificate from >> versign [...] > > [ok, this goes offtopic.sorry.] > > You sure about that? Verisign is the company who break DNS (yes, the world > wide DNS. Not just their servers. Well, it *was* their servers, but that's > exactly the problem) in some respect to increase their profit (search some > tech news site for wildcard dns record), were forced to undo that, and > announced they would do it again in the near future. Verisign is the > company who sold a certificate for microsoft.com to some joe random - so I > guess somebody might do the same for your site.. Verisign is the company > who routinely spams people who try to change their domain name > registration to a different provider, or who have done so in the past. > > [I think their 'separating out' the registry business and all this is a > technicality. It's still the same]. > > No, I won't name any other company here, and I'm not afiliated to any > company selling certificates. well I didn't know that, but after seeing how much they're charging (900$ a year) we decided not to buy. I've checked the wildcard in the server name and it seem to work on win2k and above, so I guess I'll stick to that.
> > cheers > -- vbi > thanx -- Haim
