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Not trying to defend the idea, but the domain will expire at whatever point the registrant doesn't fund renewal anyway. Is that potentially arbitrary sunset dat
by hunter2_ 9y ago
Not trying to defend the idea, but the domain will expire at whatever point the registrant doesn't fund renewal anyway. Is that potentially arbitrary sunset date "better" by virtue of being more distant? If the authors care to let the sites exist yet prefer to abandon stewardship now, they should transfer ownership now and to someone who cares enough to encrypt as needed.
- Santosh83 9y agoSome of these sites may be on shared hosting where the hosting provider doesn't provide SSL for custom domains, or provides it for a fee which is unjustifiable to the website author[s], so it may not even be that they don't care enough, but that they don't want to shell out personal money for say a static, hobbyist website.
- Nilsson 9y agoWell, there's always services like CloudFlare which would offer free certificates - thus even allowing for pages hosted on GitHub Pages to be served through HTTPS.