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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
4.68 (131 Total Reviews)

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Chad B.
Review
Very easy process, amazing VALUE!!
Fri January 27, 2012
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: After a few hours

All I can say is WOW! The value that you get for the $59.50 is amazing. Wildcard certs, individual, multiple domains, anything! The verification process took a little bit of time due to my lack of a documentation but they were able to overcome this by sending me a registered letter with a verification code. All of my questions or concerns were answered almost immediately. I highly recommend using StartCom!
Alexander Krivács Schrøder
Review
Quick, easy and functional
Wed November 16, 2011
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: I'm not sure. I've never needed support.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Immediately
Website: https://alexanderschroeder.net/

There isn't much to add here -- everything was smooth sailing. Signing up, verifying my site, generating the certificate, it all just works, and it was fast. I went from not having StartCom SSL on my site (I used CACert prior) to having StartCom SSL on my site in less than half an hour.
Evert
Review
Excellent!
Mon November 14, 2011
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Several different products
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

As i've got several domains, and especially a shitload of domains for webmail in use for my customers, they love to see their email in a secure way.
It works like a charm, even on mobile devices, also using it for communicating thru Jabber which is ofcourse perfectly working with their special cert for it.
Max.T.
Review
Looks like a fraud to me.
Wed November 09, 2011
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Code Signing
Support: They are inadequate. Very unresponsive.
Interface: It is difficult to use and doesn't meet my needs.
Issuance Speed: After several days

Basically in order to get Organization verification (and certificates) you have to go through personal verification (and pay US$ 59.90) and only then you are allowed to proceed with Organization verification.
But personal verification fee is non-refundable and they can delay this for as long as they like to and any reason whatsoever till you will go elsewhere for your certificate.
In my case they selected one of the lawyers on documents Apostille (not even on the main corp. documents) and "were trying to call him" for more than a week. Right now I have to go back to Comodo for the real certificate and cancel my payment with the bank - waste of time and money!
If you are looking for this kind of "entertainment" - try it yourself.
Peer Stritzinger
Review
Re: StartCom SSL Certificate Reviews
Thu September 01, 2011
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: Dipl.Phys. Peer Stritzinger GmbH

Don't listen to the clueless 0-star reviews here, StartCom are much better than the rest.

Like their business model: only charge when its actual work, like verifying persons or orgs. Therfore their automatic Class 1 certs are free. Also their payed products are very competitive priced.
Saskia
Review
My respect!!
Tue August 23, 2011
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

Some months ago I was so furious at the monopoly positions of these CA root companies who charge ENORMOUS amounts of money (every year again) for a simple and fully automated process, just insane. I just want to encrypt connections to my e-mail server.

I tried the Class 1 from StartSSL on my mailserver and it worked great! It was right away trusted on my Windows 7 machine using Outlook 2010 and also trusted on my Windows XP machine using Outlook 2007. Also their support is wonderful, they answer questions right away.

Long live StartSSL, I hope everybody will change to this company and stops using these crazy companies who are nothing more than a scam.

I'm going to upgrade to Class 2, thank you StartSSL!
Tierisch-Unter
Review
StartSSL makes SSL-Certificates buyable
Sat August 06, 2011
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 2 Organization Multiple Domains
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: http://www.tierisch-unter.de
Organization: Sandra Müller - Tierisch-Unter

Hello everyone,
we used to register multiple domain names with our website www.tierisch-unter.de, so Austria, Switzerland is also present (.at, .ch). First i realized to setup an environment to serve the dommain-names via SNI (openssl / httpd) and StartSSL.com's Free Certificates, which was very easy and fast to do. But the lacking support from older OS's (WindowsXP / IE) let us choose to buy a class2 verified Identity.

With class 2 it was very easy to generate a multiple domain certificate for all domains and subdomains, providing secured and validated access with only one IP-Adress.

O.K. for the unexperienced users, it may be worth mentioning, that:

1. you consider, to choose allmost all domain-names and subdomains, when generating a multidomain-certificate

2. with a class 2 validated certificate, for some older browsers, you must serve them with the javascript:document.reviewForm.submit();respective class 2 certificate chain file, which is downloadable in the tool-box section of StartSSL.com

We would be proud, if anybody visits our website and maybe leave a comment or suggestions :-)
We kindly appreciate all kind of critique...
Vinicius Barrado
Review
I love it
Thu July 28, 2011
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Other
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

I love StartSSL services is very quickly and cheap. Response is always real time, and everything is solved as son as possible. I always recommend the StartSSL certificates for everyone, I am a IT consulting and when I need a certificate for a server or e-mail I get it from StartSSL.

Thanks to make the certificate marketing uncomplicated and cheap.
rajeev
Review
All good now
Sun July 24, 2011
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: I'm not sure. I've never needed support.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour

I think there was a problem at my end so ignore the review below.

I installed the cert properly along with the intermediate server CA and all is good now.All browsers recognise it.
Just one suggestion.When generating a certificate it asks you to enter main domain and subdomain.Just use 'www' for subdomain because strangely they issue it for the subdomain so when u check cert details in browser it says issued to so and so which is subdomain you had entered.
www is accepted as a subdomain which is strange but it works.
rajeev
Review
All sites listed here are untrusted in firefox
Sun July 17, 2011
Overall Rating:
Product Purchased: Class 1 Free
Support: I'm not sure. I've never needed support.
Interface: Very easy. I just do everything myself from their easy to use web site.
Issuance Speed: Less than an hour

Iam surprised at the reviews here,i installed the free class 1 cert myself. But all the people commenting here when i check your site it says untrusted connection ?

Even startcom's own websites give this warning.

What is wrong here? Also i dont understand about support because on the forums most questions seem unanswered or have few replies.
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