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Not sure if you're aware, but it seems cert is broken, showing azure cert rather than the dedicated mimekit.net cert.

Yea, I never set up HTTPS so it probably just uses the generic Azure cert. I've been meaning to set that up.

An idea is to use Cloudflare and Letsencrypt.

Looks like this may be the way to go: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/securing-your-github-pages-site-with-https

Currently working on doing this but it looks like it could take a week or so.

Plus I need to figure out a way to do all 3 domains: mimekit.net, mimekit.org, and mimekit.com

If I make mimekit.net my "master" domain that'll get a CNAME for jstedfast.github.io, then I guess what I would do is create CNAME records for mimekit.com and mimekit.org to point to www.mimekit.net?

CNAME will work either way. What's important is to follow your custom domain to make sure that works, so that even tho you enter mimekit.org it shows mimekit.net in browser so that google doesn't penalize you.

• https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/about-custom-domains-and-github-pages
• https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/verifying-your-custom-domain-for-github-pages

You should also cname mimekit.org and others without www.

You could pretty much do it all in Cloudflare. It takes care of certificates / redirects and saves traffic. Although if you do it on github pages - not biggie I guess. But the problem with Cloudflare is you need to move to Cloudflare as your DNS provider. If you need help with that - I could help you.

What would be the advantage of Cloudflare? I'm not very knowledgable about web hosting/etc (if that wasn't obvious, haha)

The benefit of CF is simply the ease of use/managing domains.

Since your project is hosted on Github´s servers, you probably won't have to deal with bots, DDOS, hacking and similar nasty stuff as Microsoft takes care of that already. CF does that for you as well and free of charge. CF also offers domain renewals are cost-prices (no markup), so you may save a few bucks on annual renewal fees. In our company, we use CF for most of our client-facing websites (some heavy traffic sites). As @PrzemyslawKlys mentioned, "it takes care of certificates / redirects and saves traffic."

If you need help moving the domains to CF, do let me know. The sites will continue to run uninterrupted / no downtime. Otherwise, just sign up for the Free account here: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/

Yes, cloudflare is basically a free service that can do multiple things:

• responsible for your DNS (easier to manage)
• can act as a proxy and makes it "worldwide" fast
• can and does hide your website IP/server
• does certificates for you
• makes your site super fast (optimizes CSS/JS and other things)
• shows you nice stats who/when visited without even adding special code like google analytics which has more privacy than that
• protects you from attacks/ddos
• it even has a feature which runs your website from WebArchive if hosting goes down
• It can save you 50% or more traffic that's cached and served by local cloudflare (worldwide)

You don't need to buy domains or move domains to Cloudflare to use the service, but you need to delegate DNS to there so it can manage it's records, redirects. I have my domains in OVH, and then Cloudflare manages the rest.

And it's free for all that :-) It has plenty of other options for free. Keep in mind CF is not webhosting. You still need github/other webhosting. CF hides it and manages domains/traffic for you.

This should be done in the next day or so. I was finally able to get GitHub Pages to allow me to register mimekit.net (probably could have done this days ago, just needed time for DNS servers to update I guess?)

Anyway, GitHub is generating SSL certificates for mimekit.net and then it should be golden.