I have recently been shopping around to find a suitable certificate for a site I'm running in Denmark. And when shopping around you cannot ignore Verisign. To my surprise I found that it is MUCH more expensive to make a 128 bit encrypted string outside of the US than inside.?!?

For server outside the US/Canada they charge you 1099 USD where servers inside the US/Canada is 699 USD. This makes absolutely no sense to me why the same stupid string should be 400 USD more expensive to create for a server somewhere else in the world.

In general I am disgusted with the SSL Certificate business. They are charging insane prices for handing out a little file. Don't tell me it is that much work to check if an IP is really associated to a business or corporation. With modern technology most of this can be done almost automaticly.

And we complain about how 'farangs' pay different prices from Thais in many areas. This is a total rip-off IMHO.

why not go for a server within USA then?

Try Dynadot.com

20 usd for the first year:

http://www.dynadot.com/ssl/about.html

why not go for a server within USA then?

Ehh, because my server is already placed in Denmark?

Verisign is a total rip-off. No reason to go with them as I'm sure you noticed on your first google search.

This is like making a complaint about the price of cars today, then only discussing Mercedes.

I'd like a Mercedes though

george: Do you know if the certificates from Dynadot support wildcards or subdomains? I wasn't able to find much information about their services on the website.

Check out Comodo certificates. They are quite flexible in their offerings... www.instantssl.com

Dynadot is reseller for Rapidssl, and they support wildcard in one of their certificate versions:

http://www.rapidssl.com/ssl-certificate-pr...certificate.htm

Best you ask Dynadot Support or sales.

I'm using RapidSSL wild card, US$149 /year :

http://www.trustico.com/products/rapidssl/rapidssl.html

Single root certificates start at $14.95/year.

In general I am disgusted with the SSL Certificate business.

Why dont you go for a Thawte SSL. Thawte and Verisign == same company and obvisouly same product with a different name...

If you are interested by a Thawte SSL, purchase it from www.resellerclub.com a company based in India... I have purchased multiple Thawte SSL's over there without any problem.

Good luck.