Today I noticed a registrar is selling a seal for $3 a year that shows your domain is certified. The seal you get is to the right (I have blurred out the registrar as I do not wish to advertise for them).
 The seal doesn’t do anything but tell you that you are on the domain you typed in or clicked to and the date and time. If you click on it those same details come up again on a separate site.
The registrar is touting this as being a way to instill trust in your site visitors.
I think this is a scam and a way for you to pay the registrar to advertise for them.
Can you think of any reason to have it? What do you think of this seal idea?
Bill
July 31, 2007 2:38 pm
Even with the blurred out logo, I think that it looks like Godaddy. They are infamous for upselling you with useless software, products and addons..I suppose this is just another one of them.
I think it’s lame.
Christian
August 2, 2007 9:14 am
Make something cheap enough and people will buy it because its cheap!
Aren’t all domains certified to be licensed to the person whose name appears in the whois info ?
And isn’t all this included in the registration fee.?
it’s a lame legit scam ;)
a
August 2, 2007 2:29 pm
Amasing, it is GoDaddy. Does seem pointless.
But it is an exact oppossite to Private Domain registration.
Matt
August 4, 2007 3:47 pm
This isn’t completely pointless. The point of it is, is for the visitor to know they’re actually on the actual site, not a scam site. For example, paypal.com could use the service, so that people would know it’s actually paypal.com and not a paypal.com scam site. They can just click the icon, and find out if it’s the right site. Although, it is flawed, since someone could just put up a fake logo and fake page when it’s clicked.