Comments on: Microsoft Squeezing the Small Ecommerce Shop? http://www.merchant-account-services.org/blog/microsoft-squeezing-the-small-ecommerce-shop/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:01:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: » High Assurance SSL Certificates Make Their Debut - Merchant Account Services Blog http://www.merchant-account-services.org/blog/microsoft-squeezing-the-small-ecommerce-shop/comment-page-1/#comment-392 » High Assurance SSL Certificates Make Their Debut - Merchant Account Services Blog Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:39:23 +0000 http://www.merchant-account-services.org/blog/microsoft-squeezing-the-small-ecommerce-shop/#comment-392 [...] As previously mention in our blog new high assurance SSL certificates have made their debut. If you visit Entrust’s home page in Internet Explorer 7 you will see the address bar turn green. [...] [...] As previously mention in our blog new high assurance SSL certificates have made their debut. If you visit Entrust’s home page in Internet Explorer 7 you will see the address bar turn green. [...]

]]> By: Dan Kubb http://www.merchant-account-services.org/blog/microsoft-squeezing-the-small-ecommerce-shop/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Dan Kubb Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:10:41 +0000 http://www.merchant-account-services.org/blog/microsoft-squeezing-the-small-ecommerce-shop/#comment-328 While I think many of the checks being done for extended validation should've been done all along for regular certificates, I think the pricing puts it out of reach of most small businesses. Verisign, Thawte and Geotrust extended SSL certificates are all at least double the price of regular certificates (incidentally the latter two are owned by Verisign which probably accounts for the super high pricing). Also there's no such thing as wildcard SSL certificates, so ISPs can't provide business1.isp.com business2.isp.com and so on. The only way I can see small businesses affording extended validation is if they use a third party shopping cart that offers it on thier own domain. While I think many of the checks being done for extended validation should’ve been done all along for regular certificates, I think the pricing puts it out of reach of most small businesses. Verisign, Thawte and Geotrust extended SSL certificates are all at least double the price of regular certificates (incidentally the latter two are owned by Verisign which probably accounts for the super high pricing). Also there’s no such thing as wildcard SSL certificates, so ISPs can’t provide business1.isp.com business2.isp.com and so on.

The only way I can see small businesses affording extended validation is if they use a third party shopping cart that offers it on thier own domain.

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