Brad,

Your “Cyber Security Monday” email was egregiously incomplete.

You say it’s necessary to secure our website with a secure certificate. Why is it necessary?

You say we’re currently secured by forwarding to our longer domain address. Does “currently” mean “temporarily”?

You say the forwarding harms domain name recognition. How likely is that to happen? Forwarding seems to work well.

Thanks.
Lane Yoder

Lane,

Please see the attached email I received from Brad regarding extending our secure certificate. Did you receive a different email? None of your points are mentioned in this email. Are these points that have been brought up in the past?

Our certificate is an ongoing option, however, it forwards your domain to your longer classcreator.com secure address rather than securing your site with your domain.

Forwarding often drops the domain from the search results as the site indexed is the site at the longer classcreator.com address.

The email is different for those who already have a secure certificate installed and they are simply adding time.

Jessica
Class Creator Support

Thanks, Jessica.

I don’t see anywhere that classcreator has told us what “secure certificate” means. Could you please give us a definition of the term?

Thanks.
Lane Yoder

Hi Lane,

A secure certificate encrypts the contents submitted on the site as it submits from one page to the next. When a certificate is installed it loads the page in https secure mode in the browser and adds the lock to the browser address bar to indicate to users that the site is secured.

All major web browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, etc.) all require every page of a site to be secured using https secure mode now or they add a warning when that page of the site loads that this particular page is not secure. We used to secure only the pages that had credit card or private information like emails and addresses being entered using our secure certificate, however, when this change happened on every major browser we had to create a way to secure every page of every site meaning we had to find a way for domain owners to secure their site using their own domain name rather than ours or their domain would need to forward to the longer secure class creator address for their site.

We sent a series of emails to all site administrators when this change was happening and we added a section to the site admin under Admin Functions > Manage Domain > Secure Your Domain that explains the process and allows domain owners to purchase a secure certificate if they would prefer to use their own domain rather than ours to secure their site. If you are logged in you can view the page at the following address:

https://www.classcreator.com/McPherson-KS-1962/class_admin_register_secure.cfm

Jessica
Class Creator Support