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Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue


From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:46:47 -0500

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, David E. Smith <dave () mvn net> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 17:08, Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:
That is, HTTPs should become assumed.
As much as that would be wonderful from a security standpoint, IMO
it's not realistic to expect every mom-and-pop posting a personal Web
site to pay extra for a static/dedicated IP address from their hosting
company (even if IPv6 were widely deployed, Web hosts probably would

Thanks to TLS  SNI (server name indication), a dedicated IP address is
no longer necessarily,
RFC 3546, 3.1.

Yes, it is realistic to expect every mom-and-pop posting a personal
web site to utilize a provider that implements SNI,  and the sooner
they do it.

It's also realistic to expect them to buy one of those $15  SSL certificates.
Heck....   1 year .COM  registration used to cost a lot more than that.

We're not talking about huge recurring costs here.

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-JH


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