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Bob,

The new link you posted is interesting but not what I expected.

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Originally Posted By: Gordon Scott
One of the bizarre things about this is that you shouldn't even need to be a business to set up a secure server, all they're doing is setting up a verification certificate that assures encryption of the traffic.

It's another issue with processing credit cards, but most organisations use a third party for that, as I think you do.<...snip...>

Definitely. I can code a basic website, but don't have the knowledge to create a bulletproof shopping cart.

I could probably learn, but instead I could take the time to make more style and fake e-disks, learn and sequence more backing tracks for my duo, gig 14-16 one-nighters (mostly in the daytime) per month, and spend some quality time with my best friend, Mrs. Notes.

I started with Americart, which was bought by some company with initials for a name (I forget) but still called Americart, then by Americommerce, then by Sparkpay/Capital One, then back by Americommerce and now cart dot com.

The shopping cart has always been secure. They have always had that all important S.

Because I am more careful about my customer's safety than my own, I do not download their credit card numbers to my computer, and I have the cart erase them so many days after I resolve the order. Furthermore, I take all my customer's, personal data like name, address e-mail, etc., and transfer it to a computer that has an encrypted hard drive and is never-ever connected to the Internet.

I feel I have a responsibility to do everything I can to protect the data my customers trust me with.

I've been in the mail-order turned internet-order business since 1990. I've never taken a business course, but go by one rule. Treat my customers the way I would want to be treated if I were the customer.

After that, it's all paperwork and dealing with my silent partners who take a piece of everything (shopping cart, credit card authorization service, credit card merchant's account, bank, insurance company, web host, state tax man, federal tax man, local taxing authority and now the S company). Fortunately, they leave me the crumbs off the table.

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Originally Posted By: Jim Fogle
Bob,

The new link you posted is interesting but not what I expected.


That's just proof I'm certified.

Go to https://www.nortonmusic.com and see the little padlock icon to the left of my address.

It makes me feel proud and gives me a sense of accomplishment.

Perhaps if it weren't so difficult, I wouldn't be so elated about having it.

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That is a shame you had to do those hurdles. My website host took care of that for me as part of their annual fee. I use a business credit card with that account, perhaps that kept them from demanding other proof (which, in New York, is handled by each county).

I’m glad it’s solved.


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Thanks Matt

Sometime life gives me stumbling blocks. All's well that ends well, I guess. It was frustrating, I lost my temper once, but I guess I could use the adrenalin once in a great while. And I found if I yell, then apologize, the guy on the other end of the phone actually sympathized with me and tried harder to help. I'll file that away in case I need it in the future.

Oh, and I do get the increased fee.

As the situation finally got resolved, the problem seems to have been on DigiCert's end. But the solution was really weird.

They wanted proof I am a business, and I furnished, county license, state sales tax forms, website with shopping cart, pre-internet receipts when I was mail-order selling BiaB add-ons, business bank account, visa/mc merchant's account, visa/mc authorization company, and a few other things.

Because I didn't have a utility bill with my phone number on it (I use auto-pay) they didn't think I was legit. Think about that for a while.

Then finally someone at DigiCert did a Google search and found me, called the phone number listed, and said, "Now we can approve you." Go figure.

Seems to me what I furnished was a lot more difficult to forge than getting found on a Google search, but then, that's just me.

In retrospect, that's pretty funny.

The good thing is I own the certification, and it's not tied to the web host. If the web host starts screwing up, I can change easily. Since my shopping cart is also independent, there would be minimal problems.

I've been with this web host since they were the 4th company to buy out my original CyberGate web host. Unless things change, I'm not going anywhere, but it's nice to know I can.

We had a nice morning gig today, that went long, and I'm tired (a good kind of tired). So tomorrow I am going to resend my new product info with the secure announcement. Hopefully that'll make the people who want the software but were put off by the warnings feel better and be able to enjoy the new toys.

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