Getting an SSL123 certificate for a .ch domain through Thawte
Thawte offers so called SSL123 certificates, than can be issued in minutes. At least in theory.
These certificates are validated against the WHOIS records. This works fine, but SWITCH has removed all email addresses from their WHOIS records, probably to fight spam. Now, there’s an easy way out. Just change your Surname to an email address, before submitting the Certificate request to Thawte. After you have your certificate, you can change your WHOIS record back.
I would really like to see SSL certificates provided by domain registrars – i think GoDaddy even does that for some of their Domains. But SWITCH doesn’t.
maol:
Thx for the workaround.
15. June, 2007, 22:14GoDaddy does in fact offer certificates, much cheaper even than the Thawte certificates. Don’t think they’ll offer certificates for .ch domains though :-(