SSL Certificates

Secure your site while adding trust & confidence for your visitors

SSL Certificates

Secure your site while adding trust & confidence for your visitors

What is an SSL Certificate?

SSL Certificates are fundamental to internet security. Their purpose is to establish an encrypted connection between a browser or user's computer and a server or website to allow data to be transmitted securely.

Summary of an SSL Certificate's duty:

Establish a secure connection between a browser and a server
Encrypts communication to protect sensitive information your customers share on your website
Places a padlock 🔒 next to your web address in the browser
Authenticates an organization's identity

Standard SSL Certificates are the easiest and most common type of SSL certificate.

Improve Your Search Engine Ranking

Establish trust and online security for your website visitors and business.

Google wants to make the web safer and a big part of that involves making sure that the sites people access via Google are secure. That's why websites using SSL have been shown to benefit from higher ranking in search results.

There's also a lot more reasons why you should consider adding SSL to your website:

Encrypt sensitive data

Protect user privacy

Secure online transactions

Activate HTTPS and the lock icon

Prove legitimacy

Increase SEO rank

Pricing

Our Most Popular SSL Certificates

	Free SSL	Single Domain SSL	Wildcard SSL	Extended Validation SSL
Domains Included	One Domain	Protects one domain	Secure one domain and unlimited subdomains	Protects either one domain, or one subdomain
Warranty Value	$10,000	$10,000	$500,000	$1,500,000
Encryption Level	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption
Issuance Time	Minutes	Minutes	Minutes	1-5 Days
Great For	Personal Websites	Personal & Small Business	Small Business	Business & eCommerce
Trust Site Seal	✓	✓	✓	✓
Free Reissues	✓	✓	✓	✓
Major Browser Support	✓	✓	✓	✓
1 Year	Included	$79 per year	$425 per year	$339 per year
2 Years	-	$69 per year	$325 per year	$219 per year
3 Years	-	$55 per year	$283 per year	$199 per year

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What is a Standard DV SSL?

Domain Validation certificates offer an economical and quick way to implement SSL to your website. Domain Validated certificates verify you own the domain, but do not perform any additional organization-level validation.

Domain Validated certificates are ideal for personal websites, blogs, social media, or sites that do not transmit private and confidential information. A Domain Validated certificate activates the browser padlock and enables the use of HTTPS to assure your website visitors and customers that you take their privacy seriously.

Recommended Use

Blogs

Information Pages

Server-to-server Communications

	RapidSSL	GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium
Domains Included	Protects one domain	Secure one domain
Warranty Value	$10,000	$500,000
Encryption Level	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption
Issuance Time	Minutes	Minutes
Great For	Personal Websites	Small Business
Trust Site Seal	✓	✓
Free Reissues	✓	✓
Major Browser Support	✓	✓
1 Year	$79 per year	$99 per year
2 Years	$69 per year	$89 per year
3 Years	$55 per year	$75 per year

What is a Organizational Validation SSL?

Organization Validated SSL Certificates provide instant identity confirmation and strong SSL protection for your website and business.

OV SSL is an organization-validated certificate that gives your website a step up in credibility over domain validated SSL Certificates. It activates the browser padlock and HTTPS, shows your corporate identity, and assures your customers that you take security very seriously. Site visitors can verify that the website is operated by a legitimate company and is not an imposter site.

Recommended Use

Login Pages

Intranet Sites

Webmail

	Geotrust True BusinessID	DigiCert Secure Site	DigiCert Secure Site Pro
Domains Included	Protects one domain	Secure one domain	Secure one domain
Warranty Value	$1,250,000	$1,500,000	$2,000,000
Encryption Level	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption
Issuance Time	1-3 Days	1-3 Days	1-3 Days
Great For	Business	Business	Business & eCommerce
Trust Site Seal	✓	✓	✓
Free Reissues	✓	✓	✓
Major Browser Support	✓	✓	✓
1 Year	$169 per year	$699 per year	$1499 per year
2 Years	$159 per year	$649 per year	$1399 per year
3 Years	$149 per year	$599 per year	$1044 per year

What is a Extended Validation SSL?

EV SSL is an Extended Validation Certificate, the highest class of SSL available today and gives more credibility and trust to your website compared to using an organization or domain validated SSL Certificate.

Extended Validation SSL will in most cases display your company or site name in green. This prominent visual verification provides visitors added confidence that steps were taken to confirm the identity of the website and business they're visiting, increasing user trust in your website and its credibility – this is why most large companies and organizations choose EV certificates.

Recommended Use

Business Critical Domains

eCommerce

New account signup pages

	Geotrust True BusinessID with EV	DigiCert Secure Site with EV	DigiCert Secure Site Pro with EV
Domains Included	Protects one domain	Secure one domain	Secure one domain
Warranty Value	$1,500,000	$1,750,000	$2,000,000
Encryption Level	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption
Issuance Time	1-5 Days	1-5 Days	1-5 Days
Great For	Business & eCommerce	Business & eCommerce	Business & eCommerce
Trust Site Seal	✓	✓	✓
Free Reissues	✓	✓	✓
Major Browser Support	✓	✓	✓
1 Year	$339 per year	$1699 per year	$1999 per year
2 Years	$219 per year	$1599 per year	$1849 per year
3 Years	$199 per year	$1499 per year	$1699 per year

What is a Wildcard SSL Certificate?

Wildcard SSL allows you to secure an unlimited number of subdomains on a single certificate. It’s a great solution for anyone who hosts or manages multiple sites or pages that exist on the same domain. The one-time cost of the certificate covers you for additional subdomains you may add in the future.

Unlike a standard SSL Certificate that is issued to a single Fully Qualified Domain Name only, e.g. www.example.com, which means it can only be used to secure the exact domain to which it has been issued, a Wildcard SSL Certificate is issued to *.example.com, where the asterisk represents all possible subdomains.

Wildcard SSL is an option available for DV and OV SSL Certificates.

	RapidSSL Wildcard	GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium Wildcard	Geotrust True BusinessID Wildcard
Domains Included	Secure one domain and unlimited subdomains	Secure one domain and unlimited subdomains	Secure one domain and unlimited subdomains
Warranty Value	$10,000	$500,000	$1,250,000
Encryption Level	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption	2048-bit signatures / 256-bit encryption
Issuance Time	Minutes	Minutes	1-3 Days
Great For	Personal Websites	Business	Business & eCommerce
Trust Site Seal	✓	✓	✓
Free Reissues	✓	✓	✓
Major Browser Support	✓	✓	✓
1 Year	$169 per year	$425 per year	$649 per year
2 Years	$155 per year	$325 per year	$599 per year
3 Years	$140 per year	$283 per year	$549 per year

SSL Certificates

SSL Certificates

What is an SSL Certificate?

Improve Your Search Engine Ranking

Encrypt sensitive data

Protect user privacy

Secure online transactions

Activate HTTPS and the lock icon

Prove legitimacy

Increase SEO rank

Pricing

Our Most Popular SSL Certificates

Learn More about SSL

View our full range of SSL Certificates

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