An SSL certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates the identity of a Web site and encrypts information that is sent to the server using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology. SSL certificates—built around stringent, industry-leading authentication measures—allow Web site owners to secure all online transactions with up to 256-bit encryption. An SSL certificate on a Web site ensures that sensitive data is safe from prying eyes.

An SSL certificate ensures safe, easy, and convenient Internet shopping. Once an Internet user enters a secure area — by entering credit card information, e-mail address, or other personal data, for example — the shopping site's SSL certificate enables the browser and Web server to build a secure, encrypted connection. The SSL "handshake" process, which establishes the secure session, takes place discreetly behind the scene without interrupting the consumer's shopping experience. A "padlock" icon in the browser's status bar and the "https://" prefix in the URL are the only visible indications of a secure session in progress.

If the administrative/registrant contact fails to approve the certificate request, the request is denied.

This authentication process ensures that only an individual who has control of the domain in the request can obtain a certificate for that domain.

NOTE: A certificate can be renewed up to 60 days prior to and 30 days following the expiration date only.

If the administrative/registrant contact fails to approve the certificate request, the request is denied.

This authentication process ensures that only an individual who has control of the domain in the request can obtain a certificate for that domain.

Because an SSL certificate only works properly with the domain for which it is issued, pointing a domain to an IP used by another SSL-secured site normally will cause a certificate security error. The SSL 6-in-1 Certificate solves this problem for customers who have multiple domain names aliased to a single hosting account (i.e. DNS records for multiple TLDs point to the same account). A 6-in-1 SSL Certificate thus eliminates security warning errors that may scare off potential customers and other visitors to a supposedly secure Web site.

6-in-1 SSL Certificates are available as SSL and Deluxe SSL certificates. Note that domain-control validation must be completed for each of the domains supported by the certificate.

6-in-1 SSL Certificates are available exclusively to users that have registered multiple TLD variations of a single domain — i.e., yourpersonaldomainname.com, yourpersonaldomainname.net, yourpersonaldomainname.org, yourpersonaldomainname.info, yourpersonaldomainname.biz, yourpersonaldomainname.us.

Once your SSL certificate has been issued, you will receive an e-mail message containing a link for downloading the signed certificate, along with our intermediate certificate and certificate-installation instructions for the most common types of server software. The certificates and installation instructions will be downloaded in .ZIP format. Please download and unzip the file before proceeding to the installation process. The specific procedure through which the intermediate certificate is installed depends on the type of server software you are using. Please refer to the attached installation instructions for the specific installation process for your certificate, including the intermediate certificate.

The certificate will be installed on the hosting machine for the primary domain name. All other applicable TLD variations are included in the certificate code and will be recognized when/if those other domain names are being visited.

The same way you would generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) for a regular SSL certificate. Enter as your certificate's common name, the domain you consider your primary domain. In most cases, this would be the ".com" TLD (www.yourpersonaldomainname.com). However, you may enter any of your TLDs as the primary common name. Once issued, the certificate will enable secure transactions on the primary domain and all of the up to six TLD variations we have validated through our authentication process.