Geotrust Certificates, Grr.
They should have an outline of how the process is going to work first, or maybe number the steps. Like, (step 5 of 10). What you do first, is basically purchase a token from Rackshack. When doing this, you enter your admin contact, tech contact, your billing information, and your CSR.
They email you a link to a session (your token). You take this token and give it to geotrust, proving that you've paid? Then you have to enter some of the information in again and approve the rest. As well as providing additional information.
Then there's like three emails that you have to confirm, an automated telephone call that you have to accept (which was new for me), and could have been troublesome for some. As they didn't initially say that you'd need a phone to complete the process.
It definitely wasn't as straight forward as the three steps Rackshack has on their site.
Anyway, that's all fine. I was able to figure out the 10 steps, I just didn't expect it to go on and on and on like that. I kept wondering if I'd ever be done.
My biggest problem is that my CSR said:
C=US
ST=Michigan
L=Ann Arbor
O=Bitserve Systems
OU=Security Division
CN=www.bitserve.net
But the certificate that they singed says this:
CN = www.bitserve.net
OU = Domain Control Validated
OU = See www.geotrust.com/quickssl/cps (c)03
OU = Business Registration: https://services.choicepoint.net/get.jsp?1848403531
O = www.bitserve.net
C = US
Why don't they just use the information that I gave them? Why do they have to go and modify stuff? Where did they say that they would do that? They even asked me to verify the subject of my CSR. And it was correct. Why ask me to verify it, if they're going to change it?
What's this choicepoint crap?
Grr.
That's it. That's my rant. I'm done now.
