This could have been avoided had more web servers properly implemented OCSP stabling (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.6 http://tools.ietf.org/html/

This could have been avoided had more web servers properly implemented OCSP stabling (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.6 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.6). That way it would have been the hoster of the website rather than the issuing CA bearing the resource cost in providing the revocation status of the cert.