SSL Certificates

Secure your site and add trust & confidence for your visitors.
With a range of brands, we have the right certificate for all your site security needs

RapidSSL

Basic Protection for a Primary Domain

Enables basic protection for your main domain (for example, www.example.com and example.com).

Recommended for: Personal websites without subdomains. (Most sites do have subdomains.)

  • Secures your primary domain.
  • Issued in minutes.
  • Enables HTTPS and displays a padlock icon.
  • $10,000 protection warranty.
  • Globally trusted.
RapidSSL Wildcard

Protection for Your Entire Website

Secures your entire website, including subdomains. Most sites use subdomains to run important services like email.

Recommended for: Most personal and non-commercial websites.

  • Secures your primary domain.
  • Secures unlimited subdomains.
  • Issued in minutes.
  • Enables HTTPS and displays a padlock icon.
  • $10,000 protection warranty.
  • Globally trusted.
GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium Wildcard

Business-Level Protection for Your Entire Website

Secures your entire website, including subdomains. Most sites use subdomains to run important services like email.

Recommended for: Business and ecommerce websites.

  • Secures your primary domain.
  • Secures unlimited subdomains.
  • Issued in minutes.
  • Enables HTTPS and displays a padlock icon.
  • $500,000 protection warranty.
  • Globally trusted.

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Our security architects are ready to help you decide the best fit for your domain.

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What is SSL?

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

  • Establishes a secure connection between a browser and a server.
  • Encrypts communication to protect sensitive information your customers provide.
  • Places a padlock next to your web address in the browser.
  • Authenticates an organization's identity.

Basic SSL (Domain Validated) Certificates are the easiest and most common type of SSL certificate. OV and EV Certificates also authenticate the identity of the company or organization that holds the certificate providing more trust to end users.

With our SSL certificate services*, you won't need to take manual steps to configure and deploy new certificates every year. We generate a renewal order automatically when your certificate nears the end of its validity. After payment, we will automatically configure, validate, and provision your new certificate for you.

* Your domain must be hosted through the same hosting provider who sold the SSL certificate, and the server must use cPanel, Plesk, or DirectAdmin.

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

Activate HTTPS and the lock icon

Prove legitimacy

Increase SEO rank

Browsers have changed, don't get left behind

Web pages not served via HTTPS are now being displayed as ‘not secure’ in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Don't let your website be one of them. Add SSL today.

Don’t leave your website’s back door open to hackers—protect your entire site with wildcard SSL!

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Secure Your Entire Site with Wildcard SSL

A wildcard SSL certificate is the best way to secure your entire website and keep your users safe.

A wildcard SSL certificate protects your main domain and an unlimited number of subdomains (for example, mail.example.com or ftp.example.com). Even if you haven’t created any subdomains yourself, you probably have several subdomains for features included in your hosting package.

Protect every subdomain, including critical website services.
Secure your subdomains to protect critical services like:

  • Email (mail.example.com)
  • Webmail (webmail.example.com)
  • FTP or SFTP (ftp.example.com)
  • Control Panel (mail.example.com)
Google
All communication should be secure by default.

~Pierre Far, Product Manager, Google

Help Me Choose The Right Type of Certificate

While the need for online security is universal, not all SSL Certificates are created equal. The guide below is designed to help you decide which type of certificate is right for you.

Domain Validation (DV)

  • Verifies ownership and control of the domain name only
  • Issued in minutes
  • Maintains browser compliance

Ideal for non-critical web pages

Think of DV like getting a library card—no confirmation of who you really are, very minimal requirements to obtain and issued very quickly.

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Organization Validation (OV)

  • Enhanced validation including authenticating the identity of the applicant
  • Issued within one day
  • Maintains browser compliance

Ideal for more sensitive webpages such as login pages

Think of OV like getting a driver’s license—more hoops to jump through than a library card but more trusted as a form of identification.

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Extended Validation (EV)

  • Standards-based approach to authentication, representing the highest level of authentication for SSL Certificates
  • Typically issued within 1-3 days
  • Maintains browser and other industry compliance

Ideal for sensitive webpages including ecommerce, online banking, account signups

Think of EV like getting a passport—much more stringent processes, longer lead times and more verification of who you are than with a library card or driver’s license. Recognized internationally as the most trusted way to verify your identity.

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RapidSSL

RapidSSL® Certificates help you keep your customers' transactions secure with up to 256-bit data encryption and site authentication. Buy a certificate and speed through enrollment with automated domain control validation. Best of all, our SSL certificates are among the most affordable in the industry. We keep our costs down and pass the savings on to you.

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$21.43CAD/yr

GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium

Secure your website fast. GeoTrust® QuickSSL® Premium certificates are one of the quickest ways for you to start protecting online transactions and applications with SSL. With an automatic authentication and issuance process, it takes just minutes to get your QuickSSL Premium SSL certificate. After that, managing and renewing your certificates is a snap. With GeoTrust, you get inexpensive SSL without sacrificing convenience, choice, or reliability.

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$95.28CAD/yr

RapidSSL Wildcard

RapidSSL® Wildcard Certificates help you secure multiple subdomains with one low-cost SSL certificate issued to *.yourdomain.com. Protect your customers' personal data with up to 256-bit encryption. Automated domain control validation makes site authentication a breeze. At RapidSSL, we believe in providing the SSL protection you need at a competitive price.

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$179.63CAD/yr

GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium Wildcard

Secure your domain and all same level subdomains fast. GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium Wildcard certificates are one of the quickest ways to start protecting all your subdomains on a single certificate. Our automated email authentication process means you get your certificate in minutes. With QuickSSL Premium wildcard certificates, you get unlimited subdomains and on an unlimited number of servers - one certificate that will adapt as your business grows.

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$309.56CAD/yr

GeoTrust True Business ID Wildcard

Simplify certificate management with the convenience of a Wildcard certificate. GeoTrust® True BusinessID Wildcard certificates allow you to secure multiple subdomains on a single certificate, reducing management time and cost. Whether it's your company's home page or your mail server's hostname, protecting sensitive information is your goal — and it's our goal too.

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$573.07CAD/yr

GeoTrust True BusinessID

Business-class SSL—only better. When it comes to selecting SSL security for your business, you have a lot of choices. With GeoTrust, the decision is easy. GeoTrust® True BusinessID SSL certificates let your customers know that your site is trustworthy and that you take their security seriously enough to get your certificate from a globally trusted certificate authority.

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$215.64CAD/yr

DigiCert Secure Site

Protect your website or email traffic with industrial-strength 2048-bit encryption with a Secure Site SSL Certificate.

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$571.70CAD/yr

DigiCert Secure Site Pro

With Secure Site Pro SSL offer high-assurance certificate with added features for comprehensive website security.

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$1,426.98CAD/yr

GeoTrust True Business ID with EV

Make a strong security statement with the green address bar. GeoTrust® True BusinessID with EV (Extended Validation) is our premium business-class SSL security product, visually confirming the highest level of authentication available among SSL certificates. The green bar says it all. Web site visitors really notice when the address bar turns green in their high-security browsers and the organization field starts to rotate between your business name and GeoTrust.

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$368.83CAD/yr

DigiCert Secure Site EV

Secure Site Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates protect your most valuable assets–your customers and your brand–from phishing scams and online fraud.

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$1,426.98CAD/yr

DigiCert Secure Site Pro EV

Secure Site Pro EV SSL is the highest authentication with extra features for comprehensive website security and robust protection against identity-targeted attacks.

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$1,939.41CAD/yr

Multi-Year SSL Certificates

Multi-year certificates allow you to pay a single discounted price for two or three years of SSL certificate coverage. When you purchase a multi-year SSL certificate, you lock in a single price for up to 3 years of coverage.

Initially, you will receive a certificate that is valid for the Certificate Authority Browser Forum's maximum allowed term (1 year and 1 month) with the right to unlimited certificate reissues during the order period.

Automated reissuance will occur automatically throughout the term to ensure continued protection for your website.

For example, a 2-year SSL certificate order works as follows:

Benefits

  • Enjoy increasing discounts for each year of coverage that you purchase.
  • Remove the hassle of annual billing.
  • Annual validation. Yearly validation of identity in shorter validity certificates prevents potential fraud and spoofing.

SSL certificates must be revalidated periodically. The maximum certificate lifetime is 13 months, requiring revalidation annually.

Frequently Asked Questions

SSL Certificates enable data encryption on the internet and allow data to be transmitted securely from a web server to a browser. With SSL, your website can use the https protocol and will display a padlock in end users web browsers to indicate the connection is secure.

SSL Certificates are an essential part of the internet. They not only encrypt communication between your computer and the server where a website is located, but they also provide verification that a site is what it claims to be.

There are 3 different levels of vetting that SSL Certificates are based upon. Domain Validated (DV) , Organization Validated (OV), and Extended Validation (EV). The major difference between the types of certificate relates to the information the Certificate Authority, RapidSSL, GeoTrust and DigiCert, requires and validates in order to issue a certificate. The higher levels of certificate require more information, and often is displayed in the browser bar. EV SSL for example turns the browser bar green and displays the organization name to visitors to generate more trust.

A Wildcard SSL certificate provides the same encryption and authentication features as other SSL certificates but can also be applied to an unlimited number of subdomains of a website. A Wildcard SSL certificate supports the root domain (example.com) as well as its subdomains.

EV or Extended Validation certificates are the highest class of SSL available and give the most credibility and trust to your website. EV assures consumers that their personal and financial information is protected at the highest levels of authentication. Additional verifications are performed, such as corporate agency record checks, applicant contact info, and whether the business has existed for a minimum of 3 years. EV certificates are best suited for business-critical webpages.