DIGITAL CERTIFICATE

In a virtual world, there is always an element of doubt when sending or receiving sensitive information. A large percentage of internet users leave websites when asked to provide any information about themselves, simply because the website was not a secure website. There is no better way of building users’ trust than by enabling SSL on your website and getting an SSL Certificate  for your website.

What exactly is a Digital Certificate

Digital Certificate, also known as SSL certificate (Secure Socket Layer), is the standard  security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser.  SSL ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and  integral.

What does a Digital Certificate tell you?

Visitors today demand the highest levels of online safety. When you have a valid SSL  digital certificate, anyone visiting your website can see it to check:

* That it was indeed issued for your website
* Who the owner of the website is and his/her physical location
* The validity of the certificate

Why you MUST have a Digital Certificate?

Digital Certificate is a single source to combat all the fraudulent transactions prevailing  on the Internet. It not only encrypts all the data which is shared between the client and a server but also helps in gaining the trust of users who are logging in or making any  purchases.

What we offer:

thawte Certificates, which are well-recognized & trusted by users worldwide. In fact, thawte is considered to be the most reliable digital certificate brand  in the industry today, which offers your customers peace of mind to conduct authenticated, encrypted transactions online.

Every thawte Digital Certificate includes the following set of common features:

* Upto 256-bit encryption
* Highest Browser recognition in the industry
* Unlimited Free Reissues
*  First and only Certification Authority to offer Internationalized Domain Names
* thawte Trusted Site Seal

Additional License

You can now secure multiple servers with one certificate with the help of thawte Additional Licenses, a license for users who wish to secure multiple servers with one certificate. This option should only be used if all the servers have the same alias (i.e. URL seen by clients in their browsers) and if you wish to use the same certificate on 5 separate machines (you can request a maximum number of 5 licenses per certificate.) The most common environment in which users would require licenses is in a distributed architecture/load

Why buy a Digital Certificate through us?

* Partnership with the best in the industry! - Our partnership with thawte allows us to sell the most trusted brand of digital certificates. thawte is a Verisign company, which is the first company to start selling Digital certificates worldwide. thawte is a well-recognized brand with respect to SSL certificates, and displaying a thawte seal on your website assures your customers that your certificate has been issued by the best in the industry.

A large percentage of internet users leave websites when asked to provide any information about themselves, simply because the website was not a secure website. Even a single visitor who leaves your website because they were not comfortable in submitting information to your website, may end up costing you far more than the cost of your SSL Cert. Do not compromise on a SSL Cert by buying a cheaper brand. thawte is a well-recognized brand in the SSL Cert space, and a thawte seal assures your customers that you are serious about their security and helps you provide them with unmatched quality.

*  Choose the perfect one for you! – We offer various different Digital Certificates to suite your Business Needs. Depending on your business size, and the importance of security on your website, you have various above options available to you for purchasing Digital Certificates.

Virtual Identity Proof

Digital Certificate acts like a identity proof which helps you with a secure online presence and makes your business much more profitable without any risk!

“A few dollars of investment from your end
can save you a fortune and help you run a risk free business.”

The thawte Trusted Site Seal

Once you have obtained a thawte SSL certificate, you will be able to display the thawte Trusted Site Seal on your website.

The thawte Trusted Site Seal is a visible, real-time assurance for visitors to your website, that guarantees that the information they submit to your website is private.
website is private.

For further details on these Certificates and pricing, please refer to the following link: http://www.indidomains.com/digital_certificate.php

A Digital Certificate is the perfect identity validation mechanism for for your online venture. A Digital Certificate helps you Secure all online transactions and data exchange presence, and helps make your website risk free.

Research says that the Web surfers are more comfortable entering confidential and personal data on an SSL Secured Website. The importance of Digital Certificates has grown by leaps and bounds with the dawn of a new era of intensive Internet usage, be it for shopping or e-commerce.

Choosing the Right SSL for your Business:

It becomes imperative to opt in for the right Digital Certificate which compliments your website’s needs perfectly. In order to provide you with the right set of options to choose from we have partnered with thawte -  A Verisign Product, and an leading provider for Premium Digital Certificates and security products. thawte, by itself is easily the most trusted digital seal on any website across the internet, and is held in high regard by visitors. Getting a thawte certificate on your website will better the number of times a purchase process is abandoned.

Digital Certificate Types:

SSL 123:

SSL 123 is our Entry Level Certificate and you can get this certificate issued within minutes of signing up. Using SSL 123, thawte provides validation of you being the official registrant of the Domain name in use. Being the entry level Certificate, its the lowest priced thawte Certificate. You could choose to opt in for this certificate if the following are your needs:

• You would need the thawte authentication and Seal on your website at the lowest cost.
• You would want to cut down on the verification procedures and get the Certificate in the most hassle free way and within minutes of signup.

SGC (Server Gated Cryptography) SuperCert:

thawte SGC SuperCert offers the strongest encryption and automatically steps up protection to a minimum of 128-bit. This would be done even if your visitors use older browsers which have limited 40-bit or 56-bit encryption capabilities. SGC SuperCert has been the apt choice for various businesses needing a constant exchange of sensitive information over the internet.

You could use an SGC SuperCert, if any of the following are true for your business:

• You conduct medium to high-value e-commerce transactions via your web interface.
• If you frequently engage in collecting exclusive and sensitive information from your clients over the internet.
  Eg.: You need to secure the login credentials of your clients. You would like to collect your business associated sensitive information using the strongest encryption.

Web Server Certificate

thawte SSL Web Server Certificate authenticates not only the ownership of your Domain Name but also gets your Business Identity verified. It offers 256, 128, 56 or 40-bit encryption, depending on your client’s browser capability, ensuring that information is encrypted while being transmitted from your server and your visitor’s web browsers.
You would need a Web Server Certificate, if any of the following are true for your business:

• You would like to secure your company’s data that is hosted on your Server.
• You are a reputed organization with a need to secure every inflow and outflow of information for your Domain hosted on your Server.

Wildcard Server Certificate

thawte WildCard Certificate allows you to secure multiple sub domains of one domain on the same server, eliminating the need to purchase individual Digital Certificates for each Sub-Domain. Hence, you will no longer need to spend time, money and effort on obtaining multiple certificates for all the hosts on a domain. thawte Wildcard Server Certificate not only validates your Domain Name but also your Business Identity.

You need a Wild Carded Certificate, if any of the following are true for your business:

• You want to secure all the information that is being transmitted between your Client’s Browser and all the Sub-Domains hosted on the same Server.
• You are the Parent Company and would like to secure all the information relating to your Business Units that are the Sub-Domains on the Parent Company’s Domain.
  Eg.: If you want to secure abc.yourcompanyname.com and def.yourcompanyname.com, which are Sub-Domains of your Primary Domain, yourcompanyname.com, then buying a WildCard Certificate will secure all these Sub-Domains along with the Primary Domain.
• If you are a Financial Organization and would like to secure all the sensitive information, then its ideal to use a WildCard Server Certificate.

Using Additional Licenses:

Quite often, websites are hosted on multiple servers rather one dedicated server. Although, a WildCard Server Certificate secures all the hosts on a particular Domain Name, it will be unable to secure the Sub-Domains hosted on the multiple servers. However, to avail the benefit of securing all these hosts on multiple servers, you can avail of our Additional License, that helps you in overcoming this limitation and securing all the hosts of that Domain Name effectively. Using these Additional Licenses is not only time saving but also helps in reducing your costs.

To know more about the pricing of our Thawte Digital Certificates, please refer to the following link: http://www.indidomains.com/digital_certificate.php

For further details on our Digital Certificates, you may also have a look at our exclusive Knowledgebase: http://cp.indidomains.com/kb/servlet/KBServlet/cat276.html

In case of any further queries or assistance regarding our Digital Certificates, please feel free to contact us.

One of our previous posts covered the advantages of buying a Digital Certificate – through confidentiality, message integrity, non-repudiation and authentication techniques (to name a few), Digital Certificates play a vital role in adding credibility and trust to your Brand. All this of course depends largely on the brand of Digital Certificate that is being used as well! We have that’s why tied up with the very best in the industry- Thawte. It is a Verisign Product and by far the most recognized Digital Certificate Brand out there. What’s more, the prices at which these are being offered to you are not only competitive, but possibly the lowest out there. Many of you though might not have made optimum use of these premium Digital Certificates (Thawte) that we offer them with – wonder why?

Buying the right Digital Certificate is not enough. The effectiveness of a Digital Certificate largely depends on the page that you install it on. So the next time you are not too satisfied with his Digital Certificate’s performance, its probably because it’s not installed on the right page. Here are a few handy tips:

Login Page:
It is a must to encrypt sensitive login credentials that are entered on the Login Page. A website that does not have a Digital Certificate installed on the Login Page is at risk of the clients data being illegally accessed. Furthermore, with browsers getting smarter, for any page that asks for information and doesn’t have a Digital Certificate, the browser throws up a security message.

Payment Page:
Even with the internet gaining so much popularity, there will always be a little hesitation when entering Credit Card information online. And during the purchase process, if the browser pops up a security warning, most users will stop right there and not end up buying the product! Statistics indicate that over 60 percent of shoppers do not complete the shopping process that they begin. Yes, there are various factors that contribute to this, however a Digital Certificate on the payment page is the easiest and the most critical solution for reducing Shopping Cart Abandonment.

Any page that asks for email addresses:
Spam or unsolicited emails are doing round of the internet like never before. Customers are vary of giving their email addresses simply because they don’t want their email address being accessed by spammers. And not having a Digital Certificate on a page that asks for email addresses puts your Customer at a risk of their email address being accessed.

Another important point that you can do is place the Digital Certificate seal throughout the Website, or at least on important pages like the Homepage. This assures the visitors that the site is authentic and business intentions are genuine.

They may seem quite simple but more often than usual, these important tips are ignored. And yes they do make a vast difference when implemented accurately.

Would you part with sensitive information like credit card details or your social security number, without any assurance that the information will be kept confidential? Neither would I, especially in an online environment.

So how does an entrepreneur gain the trust and confidence of his customers? Especially if he wants to boost his sales and cater to a larger market, without having to spend too much time and effort in building a trustworthy brand.

Various studies have revealed that a large amount of customers abandon a site for lack of security. The smaller the company, the greater is the customers’ concern. Surely, nobody would knowingly want to turn away a potential customer. To get a step closer towards building a brand that is trusted, a wise choice would be to invest in an Digital Certificate…

An estimated 59.8% of online shoppers abandon their purchase process resulting in a loss of a substantial amount of money.* When it comes to parting with sensitive information, Digital Certificates have the highest scope to minimize Shopping Cart Abandonment, especially during the check-out process. Simply because it is widely known that Digital Certificates encrypt the sensitive information entered, making it unintelligible to all but the parties involved. Thus, increasing the motivation for customers to shop online. Another important thing that Digital Certificates do, especially now days with advanced browsers, is prevent a ’security pop-up’ from appearing during the purchase process.

This is precisely why Digital Certificates have become such an important aspect of every online business.

Looking at it from a customers perspective… the market is huge, the time is perfect and the prices don’t get better… I won’t deny that the premium brands of Digital Certificates come at a steep price (if you chose another Service Provider). At Indi Domains, you will find Thawte Digital Certificates – A Verisign Product; only difference being the prices are much lower than what Thawte themselves offer, or anyone else for that matter. The “trusted seal” logo that comes with Thawte Digital Certificates will be positioned on the website, thus escalating the brand worth in the minds of the customers many times over.

P.S. Do go through our revamped Digital Certificate page where you may have many of your queries addressed.

* Source: MarketingSherpa

SSL branding is synchronous with Trust. It’s been repeated time and again that customers will definitely not doubt your ’sincerity to do business’ once they see you have certified and secured your website with a SSL certificate. Which directly translates to – using a trusted Certification Authority is essential for an effective Online Business.

Purchasing from proven, established vendors, specially in case of security products such as Digital Certificates, brings up the inevitable – How do I choose a SSL Certification Authority (CA) that my customers will Trust?

There are several things that buyers should look for when purchasing a certificate:

* Reputation and Credibility of the CA
How long have they been in business?
Consumer Awareness?
* Ubiquity of the Root
Is it embedded in all of the popular browsers?
* Root is owned by the CA
And not chained like Third Party SSL certificates.
* Lifecycle Management Tools
How easy is it to install, renew, reinstall and revoke if compromised.
* Ease of Acquiring the certificate

For instance, Thawte provides their esteemed list of clients, that include Google, 3M Company, Honda Canada, Hershey, American Airlines, Credit Suisse Group, among others, with Root Certificates.

Removing all elements of doubt, Thawte has obtained the Trust Factor by successfully implementing the highest encryption and authentication standards recognized today.

Our Digital Certificate (thawte) product now allows you to take advantage of a freely available trial period which gives you the ability to test-drive a certificate before going live & selling the product to your customers!

The FREE trial will allow you to work with our (thawte) certificates, to understand how they can contribute to your/your customer’s security needs before purchasing/selling it. This certificate is valid for 21-days and will give you an opportunity to experience the certificate installation process as well as determine your required server configuration. All you need to do is visit our website and get started with the process of availing your free trial certificate. Once you enter all the details you will be able to proceed with the issuance.

The feature of purchasing Additional Licenses within our thawte Digital Certificates is now LIVE!

Now you can purchase Additional Licenses for your existing as well as new SSL Certificates through our Control Panels.

To purchase Additional Licenses for your Digital Certificate through the Control Panel, you will need to login to your Control Panel, search for the Digital Certificate order and proceed to it’s ‘Order details view’. Here, you will see the ‘Additional License’ button along with the enroll, re-issue, etc. buttons in the lower toolbar of the interface.

So go ahead and secure your business for the New Year!

Let me go back a little in time…The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol was first adopted by ‘Netscape’ in 1994 as a response to the growing concern over Internet security. The goal was to create an encrypted data path between a client and a server that was platform or OS agnostic.

Since its inception, the main role of SSL is to provide security for Web traffic including confidentiality, message integrity, non-repudiation and authentication. SSL achieves these elements of security through the use of cryptography and properly authenticated digital certificates.

SSL certificates, therefore, are ‘critical’ for the user to trust a website operating from a server, before sending private information to the server.

Furthermore, with browsers advancing as quickly as they are, very soon every browser would pop up a warning message if a site doesn’t have a digital certificate. I.E. 7 already does that! Whats more, recent studies indicate that a major portion of the customers don’t pay when they see the warning message.

For people who are relatively new to this radically secure technology:

Some years back, during our research for the integration of Digital Certificates, we came across several providers who offered certs at cheaper rates, compromising on quality, thus making the entire objective of using a Digital Certificate futile. We finally partnered with Thawte, which is a Verisign Product- the most trusted brand in the industry today!… More on that next time..

Until then…Cheers !!