Finally this has been fixed. I have a support ticket number C715800660.
Now that this has been fixed i can confirm auto updates work, would you like me to ask them anything? I cant presume that this was a global fix but it may have been.
I could ask them for more information? This took me two weeks of daily calls, emails and facebook harassment but it works!
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Dear Gareth Gutteridge (Customer ID: ~~~~~~),
Thank you for contacting us.
This message is to inform that the issue with the curl command for( https://wpgeodirectory.com/) was fixed. Running the command curl -Lv https://wpgeodirectory.com/ is successful with no errors. We apologize for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience.
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