If they had announced this before the Let's Encrypt[0] initiative it would have been more impressive, but still it is a nice gesture to offer these for the month or two that people are still buying them. I wonder if it is a preemptive move to keep customers from taking their certificates elsewhere, as you will be able to do with the Let's Encrypt certs?<p>Reading the rest of the announcement, It looks like they are slowly catching up to Gandi.net, who have offered free one year certs and other features (two-step verification and domain privacy) for a while now.<p>They are a bit behind the curve compared to better Registrars but still light years ahead of garbage like GoDaddy, etc, so good on them for offering this.<p>[0]<a href="https://letsencrypt.org/" rel="nofollow">https://letsencrypt.org/</a>
According to their site, <a href="http://blog.eurodns.com/eurodns-ssl-certificates/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.eurodns.com/eurodns-ssl-certificates/</a>, this is only for domains registered with them. So it's not really free.<p>StartCom/StarSSL has provided fully free certificates for some time: <a href="http://www.startssl.com/?app=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.startssl.com/?app=1</a><p><i>edit</i>: Title is now clearer, I believe the "to customers" portion wasn't initially there. Or I just suck at reading.
According to <a href="https://www.eurodns.com/ssl-certificate-faq/#whatisincluded" rel="nofollow">https://www.eurodns.com/ssl-certificate-faq/#whatisincluded</a><p>"For an additional fee you can add a wildcard to the Alpha SSL certificate meaning that the certificate can be used on an unlimited number of subdomains and servers. The wildcard option allows for additional subdomains or servers to be added in the future."<p>... so no wildcards for free. fyi.
If I'm reading this correctly this is a certificate for a single domain registered with EuroDNS and does not include a wildcard.<p>Alternatively you could use CloudFlare's Universal SSL: <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/</a>
Their Alpha certs ( the type being provided in this promotion ) expire after one year.<p>It's not clear from their documentation whether your free single-domain cert will be renewed for free after that, so worth checking before rushing in.
Ok, for the semi-newb here - this would do if I just wanted to secure a single site (e.g. a blog) without a subdomain, right?<p>Because I should really get on that