Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates
There&#x27;s been downvoted comments below that, to me, seem to complain of Mozilla unfairly blindsiding domain owners.<p>I disagree, based on my own personal experience. This has been coming for a while, with plenty of forewarning.<p>My employer uses certificates from one of Symantec&#x27;s brands. Last year, we began to get notices that Chrome et. al. would be distrusting the certificates issued from the old Symantec root this year, and that we would need to claim our free replacements issued from the new trust root that is replacing Symantec&#x27;s. And it&#x27;s not been just one notice, we&#x27;ve been getting them regularly. And in addition to the automatic form emails, the sales rep assigned our account personally reached out to us to make sure we were getting this taken care of. We are not a large company, either; we have less than 100 employees. DigiCert is taking this transition seriously.<p>So IMO, if someone gets blindsided by their website breaking because of the Symantec root distrust, then they have only laziness and&#x2F;or incompetence to blame, whether it&#x27;s their own, or that of their website operator. Those who&#x27;s job it is to make sure that doesn&#x27;t happen have been warning about it for nearly a year now.