>Meanwhile, look at all the nonsense that e.g. GoDaddy (who also charges for revocations) is not getting right now. Because the folks with altered understandings of reality got scared away by the $20 or whatever it costs on year 1, and are plaguing StartSSL instead.
FWIW, GoDaddy didn't charge me anything to rekey my certificate.
I also have a certificate with StartSSL, but on finding it would cost $25 to revoke, I purchased a new one from namecheap for $10. I know this leaves the StartSSL cert potentially floating about but it's only for a personal site (no real valuable data) so que sera sera…
FWIW, GoDaddy didn't charge me anything to rekey my certificate.
I also have a certificate with StartSSL, but on finding it would cost $25 to revoke, I purchased a new one from namecheap for $10. I know this leaves the StartSSL cert potentially floating about but it's only for a personal site (no real valuable data) so que sera sera…