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George Ilias on October 23, 2019

Hi everyone, I want to buy a .dev domain for my site and i want to know if yay.com is good because its giving ssl with domain.

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Antony Garand •

Ssl is free with let’s encrypt for everyone, so it’s not much of a selling point.

I would stick with a more popular and known registrar, such as google domains or namecheap

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Morado •

also, a .dev domain is cheaper with google ($12/year)

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George Ilias •

Becouse everyone said to me the free ssls arent that good

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jappyjan •

Some time ago browser did differentiate between "cheap" and paid certificate by showing the name of the related company in the URL bar if u use a paid one... Back in those days, this was recognized as a sign of trust. Nowadays browsers don't show this anymore and there is no longer any reason to pay for a certificate.

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George Ilias •

Oh I see thank you

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Antony Garand •

Jappyjan is talking about EV certificates which definitely still exist, but their value is still debatable.
Troy hunt made a good post on the subject.

Overall, don't buy a certificate, specially not an EV one.

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Mehmet Duyar •

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