Help me understand StartSSL plans

drdrake

Hello,

I have seen startssl plans (https://startssl.com) and i saw this one particular plan:

Limit your annual budget to US$199.90 for:

Unlimited 2-years period green bar EV SSL Certificate for FREE, up to 100 domains;
Unlimited Class 3 OV SSL certificates, 3 year, up to 100 domains, wildcard certificates;
One Class 3 Code Signing Certificates including kernel signing;
Unlimited Class 3 organization Client Certificate.

Does this mean i can get a EV certs for 100 (sub)domains for only 200 USD?

What about the OV SSL?

Please someone help me understand this right.

How many certificates can i get for that price? I tried to talkto the support but i didn't get a clear answer.

Thank you!

tommy

ask them!

jrishabh55

Hello @Arjon , well yes , According to their homepage and the plan you mentioned above you can have upto 100 different domains EV SSL Certs,

OV SSL stands for StartSSL™ Organization Validation Certs. may be used for organisations (i'm not sure tho..)

drdrake

@tommy said:
ask them!

I did! They couldn't explain it good and had a bad support team.

@jrishabh55 said:
Hello @Arjon , well yes , According to their homepage and the plan you mentioned above you can have upto 100 different domains EV SSL Certs,

OV SSL stands for StartSSL™ Organization Validation Certs. may be used for organisations (i'm not sure tho..)

So they say "Unlimited Class 3 OV SSL certificates" so i can get 100 wildcard certificates for 100 domains?! They are not clear.

jrishabh55

Arjon said: So they say "Unlimited Class 3 OV SSL certificates" so i can get 100 wildcard certificates for 100 domains?! They are not clear.

yes that's correct. a wildcard domain consists for *.domain.tld and its obvious that you will not need 2 wildcard for same domain (100 not a chance), but make sure to verify this with them as well, to assure your purchase...

ATHK

@Arjon said:

@tommy said:
ask them!

I did! They couldn't explain it good and had a bad support team.

Their support isn't that hot, might be a different story if you're paying though.

giang

@ATHK said:
Their support isn't that hot, might be a different story if you're paying though.

Usually, they answer me within 6 hours and I'm a free user.

Comodo EV team anwsers ticket once a day

century1stop

well, their support are a confusing lot. just remember each free certificate is valid for a year and needs renewal every year (from what their support said). certificate feature table isn't very informative.

TheOnlyDK

From what I understand, your fee gives you 1 year access to issuing certs. During this year you can issue 2/3 years certs. You only get 1 EV cert, but it may be possible to add more to the SAN area (not sure on this) for multi domain cert.

CFarence

@TheOnlyDK said:
From what I understand, your fee gives you 1 year access to issuing certs. During this year you can issue 2/3 years certs. You only get 1 EV cert, but it may be possible to add more to the SAN area (not sure on this) for multi domain cert.

I have the personal verification for $59.99 and your correct. The 60 bucks gives my account access to issue certificates for one year. The personal verification gives me class 2 certs that are valid for 2 years from the issue date. And support 100 hostnames and support wildcard certificates. Currently I have 10 wild card certificates. I choose to have each domain on its own certificate but it could just put the wildcards on one.

I'm not sure about the EV ones, I would assume you can SAN them since you can with the other paided ones.

FlyInTheSky

they ask for a photo that you holding your passport for validation , this must stop many people from buying .