According to Certificate Authority/Browser (CAB) Forum guidelines, beginning in April 2015, all SSL certificates industry-wide will be limited to a maximum validity of 39 months. As a result of actions taken by Certificate Authorities to comply with these CAB Forum guidelines, Namecheap will disable the ability to order SSL certificates for durations longer than three years by February 26, 2015. This applies to all of our SSL brands: Comodo, Symantec, GeoTrust, Thawte, and RapidSSL.
We recommend that you begin planning to cease the sale of 4- and 5-year certificate products before that date. No changes in the API integration will be necessary from your end to incorporate the change of reissue behavior for the 4- and 5-year SSL certificates.
Saturday, February 21, 2015
