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Happy to see this, to be honest. Selling SSL certificates was always a borderline scammy business — the companies provided barely any added value, their websites were terrible, buying certificates was always a pain, and one always had to fight through various upsells (usually with no value at all).

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Buypass was one of the free alternatives to Let's Encrypt that also supported the ACME protocol and even gave you 180 days validity.

Indeed, I had just started using them at that. No account needed, you just needed to set your contact to "mailto:$EMAIL" and get on with your day. Was nice to use them for a few domains so as to make sure I had a more diverse set of tried and tested issuers, with bonus points to Buypass for being outside the US as well (Norway).

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