Followed up with: > While everyone can register for free on Let’s Encrypt, only (or mostly) serious companies pay money to register on DigiCert, GoDaddy, and s

Followed up with: > While everyone can register for free on Let’s Encrypt, only (or mostly) serious companies pay money to register on DigiCert, GoDaddy, and so on. GoDaddy is not a serious anything. DigiCert perhaps, but GoDaddy has repeatedly shown themselves to be scummy and untrustworthy. That said, I do see the value in having an entity like a bank pay for a stricter cert with identity validation versus leveraging Let's Encrypt's free infrastructure which only validates domain/site control.