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Ssl Certificates Explained – Your Questions…

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John asks…

Do I use SSL certificate within my main domain (https:/mysite.com) Please see details below. thanks?

Many advised that using SSL certificate is better than using within main domain. Please explain me that why do I use SSL in a subdomain (https://login.mysite.com)? Using within my main domain (https:/mysite.com) is not better? my site is a blog. it has login, commenting/guest book and an ebook sales page. they are only need https://. Using SSL with whole site (https://mysite.com/) makes any speed/performance/other issues? pls explain or provide related links. thanks in advance.

admin answers:

You should only use the SSL on pages that provide access to “sensitive” data. So in your case, you should definitely use it for the login section and sections that interact with financial data.

If you apply SSL to all pages (https://mysite.com), you’ll be wasting a lot of bandwidth and system resources. The server and client browser will unnecessarily encrypt a lot of non-confidential information (makes up 90% of most sites). For example, if your website has a “About This Company” page that is just static text without “secret” information, encrypting data via SSL (https://mysite.com) will just be a waste. And if your site has MILLIONS of pageviews in a month, you’re going to kill your server.

If most of your pages does not contain sensitive data, then you should selectively apply the ssl.

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Icann Domain Names – Your Questions…

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Ken asks…

domain name stolen by hosting company?

I paid for a domain name & hosting, and I prepaid annually. It was fine since 2002

Last fall new company bought out old company and didn’t tell anyone. They didn’t send out rewal notices. My two sites were shut down. I contacted them REPEATEDLY and they don’t reply. The few times they did write back theyd “look into it” and it’s still not fixed.

Turns out the original company put the ownership and all the control in THEIR name even know I paid for the name. New company locked it so I can’t alter or move my name.

I contacted the upper level reseller, godaddy.com, for help. They had me fill out forms, which I did; no reply back. I filed a Reqest for Change last November for both of them formally including sending my photo ID and proof I was paying for the name; no reply. ICANN won’t help me.

Right now my site is gone. They put some junky search page up.

The site isn’t worth a fortune so I can’t hire lawyers, but it’s basically my real NAME. It’s important to me

help!

admin answers:

1st off, GoDaddy sucks a lot. All I ever hear about are problems with their services. Try using Yahoo! Domains next time because they give great service, as I have two domains with them right now.

Other then that, to get your site back, you can use http://www.networksolutions.com/whois to find out who the contact person is and see they’ll do anything, but you probably heading up creek without a paddle in a leaky boat – Get my meaning??? SOL.

I hope this helps, and good luck.

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