StartCom SSL Certificate Reviews

StartCom is an certificate authority that sells SSL certificates. StartCom was established in 2004, and is headquartered in Eilat, Israel. It is well-known for offering free SSL certificates that are domain-validated and supported in most newer web browsers.

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StartCom's Average Rating
4.49 (195 Total Reviews)

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Henrik Pedersen
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Awesome free certficates!
Wed May 15, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Immediately
Website: https://wechat.dk
Organization: Wechat.dk (HSP Software)

It's very easy to order the free certficate, they have great setup guides for all servers and their customer support usually responds within 5 minutes. That's just AWESOME.

Will definitely buy certificates from them if I ever need it.
Chris Trainor
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Amazing SSL Cert Provider.
Sun May 12, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization Wildcard
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Organization: ZCast Live, Inc

StartSSL is simply awesome. For a very small annual fee to validate who you are and that you really exist you can create as many certs as you need. No need to pay a pile of loot for each cert. Just go thru the validation process and crank out whatever you need for your owned sites. Excellent for those who just want to keep some content from prying eyes. Or you can get their full blown EV (green bar) certs as well at a fraction of the cost from other big-name providers.
Cherene Lindley
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Couldn't even get started
Sun April 21, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: I'm not sure. I've never needed support.
Interface: It is difficult to use and doesn't meet my needs.
Issuance Speed: Immediately

Since I was trying to use the free cert, I didn't call support, but I went around and around trying all the FAQs and Help without success. Often my browser couldn't access their web pages because their cert wasn't recognized! I wanted the domain certification and they kept sending me a cert that my e-mail address was verified; then when I tried to click on the link in the e-mailed message it errored out. Wasted a lot of time for no result.
Juan Quintana
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Simply Amazing
Tue April 16, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour

I have used several of their free certs for my lab with no issues at all. This would typically cost me money with other providers. I have been able to learn A LOT about certificates in general because of the service they have provided which has helped me tremendously in my job.

Best of all, they make themselves available via instant messaging to assist. This simply blew me away and makes me very appreciative!

I have recommended them to many of my clients which have used their services as well.

Thanks for everything, StartCom!
Mohamed Alsemany
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Easy and Free for 1 year
Sat April 13, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Immediately
Website: https://flashgamesscript.com/
Organization: Flash Games Script

The best way to gain your ssl for free is startssl or startcom.org

I just faced one problem when Firefox was stop the CERT but when I uploaded the CA-Bundle to the server there was no problem !!

I can recommend them

my personal data when I register for the first time was not complete and there support (Zita Szimedli) contacted me by mail and asked me for my data and personal information to complete my account !! first I was confused because they told that the ssl certs are free !! so I registered quickly and lost some of my data !! anyway Zita Szimedli activated my account less than 5 minutes after sending my non-complete personal information

just Thanks for them ?
Salvo
Review
Very cheap and very good
Thu April 04, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization Wildcard
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour

I took 2 certificate.. 1 free and 1 class 2 and they are very good. The class 2 it's 2 year and it is only 60$ ... 30 $/year for an ssl is very good... I made only 1 wildcard certificate but i think you can take many certificate as you want.

They made only a few problem on the document required.. they asked me an telephone invoice too!! :S
But they reply in less than 5 minute to the email and are very excellent!
Mitch O
Review
Super Easy and Super Free
Thu March 28, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: I'm not sure. I've never needed support.
Interface: A little confusing but easy enough after I figured it out.
Issuance Speed: Immediately
Website: https://mogaard.com

It was very, very easy to get started with StartCom's Class 1 SSL certificate. Their website and management console is a bit weird to get around the first time you visit, but once you've learned it, it's okay.
Bryan M
Review
Awesome SSL Service
Tue March 12, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Immediately

They are great service to work with, awesome customer service, I highly recommend them.
Bas van Beek
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Startcom is the way to go
Sun March 10, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization Wildcard
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour
Website: http://www.typo3multishop.com
Organization: BVB Media

Awesome support team that helps quick. Also very affordable prices. I advice to do business with Startcom to everyone.
Peter Lillevold
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Excellent customer service!
Wed March 06, 2013
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Verified Organization Wildcard
Support: They are excellent! Very helpful and responsive and fix problems easily.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour

I have had no issues with certificates bought from StartSSL. Also, when I have had trouble and I've contacted support, they have been extremely fast and helpful. All I can do is recommend these folks!
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