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.

WebhostGIANT has direct access to the IdAuthority, the largest commercial directory on the web. WebhostGIANT can therefore expediate the validation of an application. This efficient and highly effective validation method ensures we can issue a Certificate at a greatly reduced cost as reflected through our guaranteed lowest price in the industry as well as maintain a level of validation far superior to the methods employed by other SSL providers.

In order for your customer's browser to seamlessly use a WebhostGIANT Certificate, they must trust our 'Root Certificate'. Our Root (provided by CyberTrust) is trusted by over 99.3% of all current browsers, comprising all Internet Explorer 5.01 and above, Netscape 4.51 and above, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and above, Opera 6.1 and above, Apple Safari 1.0 and above, and AOL 5 and above. This browser compatibility makes WebhostGIANT as trusted as Verisign and Thawte.

Yes, anyone wishing to provide a confidential and secure link between server and customer's browser can apply for a certificate.

No. Each certificate only secures and works with that domain name it was issued for. If you wish to secure multiple domains, please ask about our Wild Card Certificates.

Yes. We offer two versions of wildcard certificates. We offer the Domain Secure Wildcard Certificate for $199 per year and we have the Business Secure wildcard Certificate for $349 per year. The differences between Domain Secure and Business Secure are the same as the standard SSL certificates we offer.

This product is an SSL certificate that conveniently allows you to secure multiple subdomains on one domain using *.domain.com pattern for the common name. The * is a special symbol that stands for one or more characters. This means that you can secure many different sub domains with one Wildcard Certificate, such as www.domain.com, customer.domain.com, supplier.domain.com or anything.domain.com etc.