February 18, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider and domain registrar Go Daddy (godaddy.com) announced on Friday that it would issue its Turbo SSL certificates, valued at $29.95, free of charge to open source projects.
The Turbo SSL certificates, the company
said, are issued within minutes, have 99 percent browser recognition
and provide 128-bit security.
"We are a big supporter of the open
source community," says Bob Parsons, president and founder of The Go
Daddy Group, Inc. "Go Daddy offers numerous open source software
applications in conjunction with our hosting plans, specifically,
blogging, image galleries, content management and more."
Go Daddy issued its first free SSL certificate to binarycloud (binarycloud.com),
an open source project focused on application framework and development
environments for creating large-scale PHP applications.
"Part of what binarycloud offers is
highly secure authentication - which means everything we do must be
extremely secure - especially code checkins," says Alex Black, project
leader for binarycloud. "After researching Verisign's certificates, we
decided that Go Daddy's SSL offering was superior - well priced and
simple to administer. They kindly donated an enterprise-grade SSL
certificate to the project and we've used it with no problems for a
variety of services on binarycloud.com."
