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by dtech 4107 days ago
According to their site, http://blog.eurodns.com/eurodns-ssl-certificates/, this is only for domains registered with them. So it's not really free.

StartCom/StarSSL has provided fully free certificates for some time: http://www.startssl.com/?app=1

edit: Title is now clearer, I believe the "to customers" portion wasn't initially there. Or I just suck at reading.

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StartSSL has been on the naughty list for a while

They charge for revocation, so it negates the entire idea of a "free certificate" if you can't properly revoke them without forking over money. It literally breaks the entire idea of revocation.

This was made very clear when Heartbleed happened

Revocation is pretty broken even without that. Instead of explaining why I'll just link this:

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/05/13/how-certificate...

Registered or transferred domains.
The only way to transfer registrars is to pay the new registrar for an extra year, so that is a distinction without a difference.