Ask HN: Is there any reason to use Comodo SSL instead of Let's Encrypt?

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In my opinion, Comodo SSL is one of the most compromised vendor of SSL certificates. A google search of "worst ssl certificates" will fill your page with Comodo results (https://goo.gl/ZrTvVx) . Even after so many issues I see that people/companies still buy it. What could be the reasons (apart from ignorance) for someone to Comodo over Let's Encrypt ?

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Wildcard certificates.

Wildcard certificates are coming to Let's Encrypt in Jan 2018 (https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-com...).

Also they are not as important with Let's Encrypt given that you can dynamically and instantly provision a certificate for a subdomain.

Without Let's Encrypt getting a certificate for each domain was costly and time consuming. Let's Encrypt solves both problems without using wildcard certificates.

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