And indeed, no surprise. Competition causes companies to compete! Shocking. But good to see just the same.
How was your experience with LetsEncrypt?
1. not implemented the auto client yet for nginx (which meant stopping the service)
2. the opaque-ness of when my domains would be whitelisted
Both of which will be fixed for public beta/release (I believe).
[1]: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/using-the-webroot-domain...
Regarding #2, do I understand correctly that domain whitelisting is just about which domains can be used with the current closed beta?
There may be some regulation (or suggested guidelines) about high-trust sites (like banks) that are vulnerable to phishing requiring EVs. Otherwise using the Google Safe Browsing API (as they plan on doing[1]) will probably work and is automated.
[0]https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/29/phishing-and-malware.html