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It was recently announced that CA / B Forum, the regulator of the SSL industry has adopted a new provision: it became mandatory to include the Tor Service Descriptor Hash extension in TBSCertificate. Now the certifying authority can issue an EV certificate for the .onion domain name only after complying with two of the following rules.

Google continued efforts for implementing encryption on all sites of the World Wide Web. Beginning from October, company will display new security warnings for all HTTP based pages in Chrome browser. Earlier this year, Chrome developers have already implemented "not secure" notification for HTTP sites that request credit card information or passwords.

Please note that Comodo CA is currently performing an unscheduled maintenance. According to this today, May 12, 2017, you can face some errors in placing of new orders on SSL, delays in processing orders and issuing certificates.

Punycode is a method for converting a domain name into an alternate format using only ASCII characters. For example, the URL "пример-сайта.рф" will have the following appearance in Punycode: "xn ---- 8sbarojrwjdmo.xn-p1ai." Most likely, you have already encountered such URLs.

Current CA / B Forum approved regulations state that certifying authorities must ensure that requests for SSL certificates received either from domain owners themselves or from those who is in charge of managing this domain. Generally, domain name verification done by creating a DNS TXT record with a specific value or by loading code to a specific location of the site. This confirms the fact of domain ownership.