SSL Digital Certificates
Confidence. Trust. Security.
Offering customers secure online data exchange has never been more important. SSL Certificates work in two ways: authenticating websites to ensure the owner is who they say they are and encrypting information sent to a website or between servers to keep it safe.
SSL Certificates make a perfect add on to domain name sales and are built directly into the OpenSRS management platform, making it easy for you to provision SSL Certificates to your customers. OpenSRS offers its resellers GeoTrust SSL Certificates at wholesale pricing, a cost-effective way to offer industry-leading protection.
What are SSL Certificates?
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol that secures data sent across the Internet. A server must have an SSL certificate installed to make a secure connection and safely transfer information. The certificate is an electronic file that uniquely identifies individuals and servers.
Typically, digital certificates are signed by an independent and trusted third party to ensure their validity. The "signer" of a certificate is known as a Certification Authority (CA). OpenSRS resells GeoTrust SSL Certificates. GeoTrust is a leader in identity verification and trust services, and the second largest certificate authority in the world. The proven brand integrity of GeoTrust lets you know you are offering your customers a name they can trust.
Why should I sell them?
There are two online security problems that SSL certificates help solve:
- Authentication - prove a company's (or server's) identity online to create a sense of trust and confidence.
- Encryption - offer protection for the data submitted to a website (or between servers) so that in the event of interception, it will be unintelligible without the unique key used for decryption.
Solving these security problems protects your customers from spoofing, unauthorized disclosure and data alteration.
What are the practical applications of SSL Certificates?
The most common purpose of SSL Certificates is to secure the transmission of financial information in ecommerce. But with identity theft on the rise and more and more businesses opening up their networks via the Internet, protecting all types of personally identifiable information (social security numbers, login information) and key business information is important. SSL Certificates should be used to secure the following:
- Web servers
- Mail servers
- Webmail
- Databases
- FTP sites
- Internet chat
- NNTP
- Login pages
- Web portals
Available Products
QuickSSL
QuickSSL Certificates are convenient and economical entry-level SSL Certificates. These certificates enable up to 256-bit encryption and are issued through an automated process that usually results in certificates being issued within minutes of being ordered. This process verifies that a certificate purchaser has appropriate administrative rights to a Web server's domain.
Features and benefits
- Domain-level authentication
- Up to 256-bit encryption
- GeoTrust Static Site Seal
- Fast issuance, often within minutes
- Compatible with 99%+ of browsers
- Unlimited, free self-service reissues
| Verification of Entity | Domain |
| Documentation required for authentication | Domain authorized email |
| Delivery time | 10 minutes |
| Example uses | Light eCommerce websites, intranets, other internal applications |
| Site Seal | Static GeoTrust brand |
| Example Seal |  |
| Terms | 1 - 3 years |
| Refundable? | Yes |
| Reissues | Free for lifetime of certificate |
| Wildcard | No |
| OpenSRS list price | $69 - 1 years $129 - 2 years $189 - 3 years |
QuickSSL Premium
QuickSSL Premium Certificates carry all of the same features and benefits of QuickSSL certificates plus the additional security of the GeoTrust 'Smart Seal': a dynamically updated time and date stamp.
Features and benefits
- Domain-level authentication
- Up to 256-bit encryption
- GeoTrust True Site Seal embedded with a date/time stamp
- Compatible with 99%+ of all browsers and most popular mobile devices
- Fast issuance, often within minutes
- Unlimited, free self-service reissues
| Verification of Entity | Domain |
| Documentation required for authentication | Domain authorized email |
| Delivery time | 10 minutes |
| Example uses | Corporate, eCommerce websites, onther non-eCommerce applications |
| Included in product | Certificate and Smart Seal |
| Site Seal | Dynamic: time/date |
| Example Seal |  |
| Terms | 1 - 3 years |
| Refundable? | Yes |
| Reissues | Free for lifetime of certificate |
| Wildcard | No |
| OpenSRS list price | $99 - 1 years $169 - 2 years $239 - 3 years |
True BusinessID
True BusinessID Server Certificates from GeoTrust fully authenticate your organization and protect interactions with your website with up to 256-bit encryption levels. These provide organization-level authentication and encryption at a competitive price.
Features and benefits
- Full organization validation
- Enables up to 256-bit SSL encryption
- GeoTrust True Site Seal embedded with your company name and a date/time stamp
- Compatible with 99%+ of all browsers and most popular mobile devices
- Free, lifetime self-service reissues
| Verification of Entity | Organization and Domain |
| Documentation required for authentication | Proof of Organization or DUNS Number and Domain Ownership (or rights to use the domain) |
| Delivery time | Two business days |
| Example uses | When corporate identity verification is important, larger eCommerce |
| Included in product | Certificate and Smart Seal |
| Site Seal | Dynamic: time/date, domain name, organization name |
| Example Seal |  |
| Terms | 1 - 3 years |
| Refundable? | Yes |
| Reissues | Free for lifetime of certificate |
| Wildcard | No |
| OpenSRS list price | $99 - 1 years $169 - 2 years $239 - 3 years |
True BusinessID Wildcard
True BusinessID Wildcard is a good solution if you need to secure multiple fully-qualified domains that reside on the same physical server and share the same second-level domain name.
For example, if you need to secure the following websites:
- www.yourdomain.com
- secure.yourdomain.com
- product.yourdomain.com
- info.yourdomain.com
- download.yourdomain.com
- anything.yourdomain.com
If all of these websites are hosted on the same server box, you can purchase and install one Wildcard Certificate issued to *.yourdomain.com to secure them all. The number of sub domains that you can use the Wildcard Certificate to secure is unlimited. Additional licenses are required to span the wildcard certificate across multiple physical servers.
True BusinessID Wildcard Certificates enable up to 256-bit encryption and authenticate the identity of your organization.
Features and benefits
- Full organization validation
- Enables up to 256-bit SSL encryption
- Secure multiple fully qualified domains that share the same second level domain name on one server
- GeoTrust True Site Seal embedded with your company name and a date/time stamp
- Compatible with 99%+ of all browsers and most popular mobile devices
- Free, lifetime self-service reissues
| Verification of Entity | Organization and Domain |
| Documentation required for authentication | Proof of Organization or DUNS Number and Domain Ownership (or rights to use the domain) |
| Delivery time | Two business days average |
| Example uses | Web hosters or corporate networks that want to secure multiple sub-domains against a base domain on a single server |
| Included in product | Certificate and Smart Seal |
| Site Seal | Dynamic: time/date, domain name, organization name |
| Example Seal | |
| Terms | 1 - 3 years |
| Refundable? | Yes |
| Reissues | Free for lifetime of certificate |
| Wildcard | Yes |
| OpenSRS list price | $499 - 1 years $829 - 2 years $1199 - 3 years |