Selling Epik and #1 SSL CA Sectigo (formerly Comodo SSL) partner. DNEncrypt to be Intermediate CA.

[INFJ]

Great news everyone!

Yesterday, Epik entered into a 2 year operating agreement with SSL market leader Sectigo (formerly Comodo SSL) to become an intermediate certificate authority to issue SSL certificates across all brands of Epik Holdings, Inc.

This will allow all sites in the SSL lander network to be equipped with Domain Validated (DV), Extended Validated (EV) or Organization Validated (OV) certificates instead of the current LetsEncrypt certificates.

This is important because we don't know for how much longer LetEncrypt will allow the creation of bulk SSL certificates to produce SSLs for free at will, even for organizations with lots of IPv4's as we have.

We also don't know whether major search engines will start to view LetsEncrypt certificates as being less compelling as an authority signal versus a paid cert.

More announcements coming, but for now, this give us a 2 year window to become a full Root CA while delivering on the vision for DNEncrypt as an alternative to LetsEncrypt.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Tin Nguyen

@Rob Monster

 

[tonyk2000]

We are still reviewing pricing but will be very competitive.

GoDaddy: $63.99 /yr. and NameCheap: $7.88 /yr. It is for 1 DV cert. (not a wildcard). Individual discounts are likely available in both cases. One would guess that GoDaddy is able to sell some charging ~9 times more. Since I am not a big fan of letsencrypt, and prefer to have normal 2-years certs, something <$10 per domain per year for the simpliest 1-domain dv cert. sounds OK for my needs. Which is what I am paying now (if a real website needs to be "secured", not a domain-for-sale lander). Many other users are of similar opinion, so there is still a market for normal certs even with free cpanel/directadmin/etc certibot addons offering good automation for free certs.

When retail customers come to get the free cert

Did you say free? Must be for epik-regged domains?

 

[tonyk2000]

Commercial DV 90-day certs will be FREE

You'll need to offer some automation tools then, such as directadmin / cpanel / whatever addons. It is hard to imagine a webmaster doing manual ssl installation 4 times a year...

 

[Rob Monster]

Preview of DNEncrypt.com v1 found here:

https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/YGVCCLD58AQ#/screens/398573008_Home_Page_1

NP community thoughts and input would be invaluable to us and very much appreciated!

To note, you have to use the left/right arrows to page through the 4 pages.

This does not include the upsell menu with prices but it shows the free SSL provisioning

 

[pereceh]

I'm not sure if Epik will free the wildcard with the brand :D

 

[Pay.My.id]

That's sound nice Tin Nguyen, customer has many option to secure their services in the future.

 

[Pay.My.id]

Free SSL here:

https://dnencrypt.com/

Commercial DV certs. Working on bulk provisioning but for folks who need a few, try it out.

Unlimited SSL or only 1 per domain/website ?