{"id":1974,"date":"2016-04-29T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2016-04-30T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T13:48:31","slug":"google-as-a-registrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2016\/google-as-a-registrar\/","title":{"rendered":"Google as a Registrar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My domains just got a little more life in them. As in, an A rating from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssllabs.com\/ssltest\/analyze.html\">ssllabs<\/a>, at least for the moment!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssl_A.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1975\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2016\/google-as-a-registrar\/ssl_a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssl_A.png?fit=475%2C295&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"475,295\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ssl_A\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssl_A.png?fit=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssl_A.png?fit=475%2C295&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1975 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssl_A-300x186.png?resize=300%2C186\" alt=\"ssl_A\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssl_A.png?resize=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/ssl_A.png?w=475&amp;ssl=1 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHighlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Problem: Time Warner has a monopoly on broadband here; they gouge you if you want a static IP; and they do thorough reporting of all IP ranges as dynamic to spamhaus, so no email servers from home folks<\/li>\n<li>Problem: 1and1 has a horrible interface\u00a0to maintain even a handful of domains, as you have to use a useless separate &#8220;packages&#8221; layer to get enough subdomains; they charge for email<\/li>\n<li>Solution: Switched all domains to\u00a0Google Registrar, which has a much better UI, supports subdomains, and allows domain name email forwarding for free<\/li>\n<li>Solution: Once you have control over your domain email, StartSSL provides amazing easy free SSL certs; they have the BEST completely automated service and the best docs; my Apache site configs are now better organized, SNI-based, and the sites are getting great scores on ssllabs, thanks to using <a href=\"https:\/\/mozilla.github.io\/server-side-tls\/ssl-config-generator\/\">Mozilla&#8217;s &#8220;modern&#8221; recommendations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Solution: phabricator needs to run on its own domain, and with this new level of control, I can easily get that going; although curl and arcanist are picky about the CA store &#8211; I could NOT get them to work with the agile.bitpost.com subdomain, at all, and I really tried &#8211; so I went with https:\/\/abettersoftware.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A brave new world. \u00a0I love it when a plan comes together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My domains just got a little more life in them. As in, an A rating from ssllabs, at least for the moment! Highlights: Problem: Time Warner has a monopoly on broadband here; they gouge you if you want a static IP; and they do thorough reporting of all IP ranges as dynamic to spamhaus, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[220,9],"tags":[125,230,226,229,227,232,228,40,231],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phabricator","category-websites","tag-broadband","tag-domain-names","tag-email","tag-encryption","tag-isp","tag-mozilla","tag-registrar","tag-ssl","tag-ssllabs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-vQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}