<story><title>Termination of StartCom business</title><url>https://www.startcomca.com/index/News/newDetail?date=20171116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pferde</author><text>Apparently, they also sent out an e-mail with the same text to their customers, with an addendum that they are going to try to get a certificate for each customer with other CAs, and that to opt-out, one has to send them an e-mail.&lt;p&gt;I found that addendum quite strange. Such thing should be opt-in, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nvr219</author><text>I got the email.  Here is the full text:&lt;p&gt;This is an automatically generated email, please do not reply.&lt;p&gt;Dear customer,&lt;p&gt;As you are surely aware, the browser makers distrusted StartCom around a year ago and therefore all the end entity certificates newly issued by StartCom are not trusted by default in browsers.&lt;p&gt;The browsers imposed some conditions in order for the certificates to be re-accepted. While StartCom believes that these conditions have been met, it appears there are still certain difficulties forthcoming. Considering this situation, the owners of StartCom have decided to terminate the company as a Certification Authority as mentioned in StartcomÂ´s website.&lt;p&gt;StartCom will stop issuing new certificates starting from January 1st, 2018 and will provide only CRL and OCSP services for two more years.&lt;p&gt;StartCom would like to thank you for your support during this difficult time.&lt;p&gt;StartCom is contacting some other CAs to provide you with the certificates needed. In case you donÂ´t want us to provide you an alternative, please, contact us at certmaster@startcomca.com&lt;p&gt;Please let us know if you need any further assistance with the transition process. We deeply apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause.&lt;p&gt;Best regards,&lt;p&gt;StartCom Certification Authority</text></comment>
<story><title>Termination of StartCom business</title><url>https://www.startcomca.com/index/News/newDetail?date=20171116</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pferde</author><text>Apparently, they also sent out an e-mail with the same text to their customers, with an addendum that they are going to try to get a certificate for each customer with other CAs, and that to opt-out, one has to send them an e-mail.&lt;p&gt;I found that addendum quite strange. Such thing should be opt-in, in my opinion.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Matt3o12_</author><text>Thank you very much for pointing out about the opt-out crap. I also got the email but I didn’t bother to read past the first paragraph because I stopped using them as soon as I switched to cloudlfare for my certificates.&lt;p&gt;I always hated their interface but as a broke high school student I couldn’t afford to have a paid certificate. Thankfully we have Let’s Encrypt now</text></comment>