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 companysaid, are issued within minutes, have 99 percent browser recognitionand provide 128-bit security.
“We are a big supporter of the opensource community,” says Bob Parsons, president and founder of The GoDaddy Group, Inc. “Go Daddy offers numerous open source softwareapplications 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 developmentenvironments for creating large-scale PHP applications.
“Part of what binarycloud offers ishighly secure authentication – which means everything we do must beextremely secure – especially code checkins,” says Alex Black, projectleader for binarycloud. “After researching Verisign’s certificates, wedecided that Go Daddy’s SSL offering was superior – well priced andsimple to administer. They kindly donated an enterprise-grade SSLcertificate to the project and we’ve used it with no problems for avariety of services on binarycloud.com.”
