Wednesday 24 January 2018

Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com receives a green padlock

This is just a little note to advise that my website, Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com, now has a security certificate. This reassures visitors that all communications between their browser and the site are encrypted.

It also means that the url has changed to https://www.Irish-Genealogy-Toolkit.com.


Web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer display a small green padlock icon in the address bar to visually indicate that you have a secure HTTPS connection.

For a time, the old http:// url will automatically redirect to the https:// url, but I'm not sure for how long, so if you have bookmarks to the site, or you link to it in publications or online, please make a note of this change.

Meanwhile, the url of this blog, www.irishgenealogynews.com, does not yet have a security certificate. (Nor does any other custom domain url hosted on Google. Apparently Google is working on facilitating this, but again, I don't know how long it will take.) I'll let you know when it does.