Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-06 – Host Color web hosting provider,announced a promotional offer on Extended Validation (EV) Green Bar SSL certificates. Host Color says that it gives site owners who purchase single-domain Essential SSL certificate, a free upgrade to Comodo Green Bar EV SSL

“Host Color is a trusted Comodo Partner and we appreciate a lot the opportunity to offer our customers a free upgrade to EV SSL. Thanks to Comodo they can use “Green Bar”, a feature exclusive to EV SSL, to reassure website visitors that they browse and transmit information through a verified and secured Internet site,” says Martin Andreev, VP of Operations of Host Color.

It articulates that it now provides its customers who need to get Green Bar Extended Validation (EV) SSL with the opportunity to get an EV SSL and to save $320/year. Now anyone who signs up for the standard single-domain “Essential SSL” digital certificate, priced at $39/year can get a free upgrade to EV SSL. The company partners with Comodo, a provider of digital security products to provide its website hosting customers with high quality SSL certificates.

The company explains that Extended Validation SSL (EV SSL) certificate, also popular as “Green Bar”, is the highest assurance digital certificate available online. It offers 2048-bit, next generation encryption and is compatible with 99.3% of web browsers, including all Mozilla, Internet Explorer and Safari versions. The regular price of Green Bar SSL is $359/year, but now its customers can purchase “Essential SSL” for $39/year and to request a free upgrade to EV SSL.

According to it, after a purchase of an “Essential SSL” certificate, its customer will be given a free update to Extended Validation Green Bar (EV) SSL. The only thing the SSL owner should do is to login to the new account. The free upgrade to Extended Validation certificate works for 1 and 2 year subscription periods. Any order for “Essential SSL” certificate will be valid and the company’s customers can use this type of SSL certificate if for any reason they cannot qualify to get issued an Extended Validation “Green Bar” SSL.

Source: www.webhosting.info

Greatresponder.com – 2010-08-03 - Fast growing web hosting company HostGee.Com today launches a new secure certificates product line.

Customers of HostGee can now secure their websites and online shops with SSL certificates, pricing ranging from an entry-level Thawte SSL for just $85.00 per year to the Extended SSL product which offers the highest levels of authentication and validation. There’s also a wild-card option that’s perfect for protecting multiple websites using the same SSL certificate.

Shafiq Ur Rehman, CEO/Founder, said: “Secure certificates are an essential part of running an online business, whether you need to provide security for online sales transactions, protection for a members’ login area or secure financial data. We’ve introduced a complete range of SSL certificates, so whatever the size of your business or requirements we”ll have the security covered.”

About HostGee.Com Corporation

HostGee Corporation provides domain name registration, Web hosting and ecommerce, colocation, managed dedicated hosting, SaaS hosting, Web design and online marketing services to over 1 Hundred Thousand Web sites and 80,000 customers worldwide. It operates over 250,191 square feet of state-of-the-art data centers that reduce the complexity and cost of Web-based technologies for small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 2009, HostGee is one of the world’s largest Web hosting companies with a direct presence in 3 countries, 3 worldwide operation centers and more than 150 employees.

GreatResponder.com – 2010-07-22 – Now, Every Business Using VeriSign SSL Can Drive Trust From Search to Browse to Buy

VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, once again has redefined what online businesses and consumers can expect from web site security with a host of new trust enhancements available today at no additional charge to VeriSign® SSL customers.

The new features, including VeriSign® Seal-in-Search™ technology and daily web site malware scans, enable web site operators to deliver a trusted experience for online users from beginning to end, all while leveraging the VeriSign seal, the most recognized trust mark on the Internet.

“In the face of increasingly elaborate attacks and fraud schemes, web sites need solutions that do more than data encryption,” said Tim Callan, vice president of product marketing at VeriSign. “By enhancing our SSL Certificate services with new features that instill trust at every step of the online experience — at no additional charge to our customers — we’re delivering a more robust and value-driven solution. In the process, we’re redefining what web sites should expect from online security.”

Chris Christiansen, program vice president for security products and services at IDC, said, “Companies rely heavily on the trust they are able to develop with customers, especially when it comes to the security of their transactions, interactions, and personal data. With the VeriSign Trust™ Seal, people will have more confidence that they will be protected from phishing attacks or receiving malware because they will be going to a legitimate web site when clicking on the site’s link.”

By combining the new enhancements with the existing strengths of VeriSign SSL Certificates in a single solution, VeriSign enables Internet users to:

Trust the link: Even before consumers visit a VeriSign SSL-protected web site, new VeriSign Seal-in-Search helps web sites using VeriSign SSL stand out in a long list of search engine results. Now online users will see the VeriSign Trust™ Seal next to search results for sites protected by VeriSign SSL in popular search engines, shopping sites and online listings. Seal-in-Search is enabled by browser plug-ins that detect VeriSign trusted links in popular search engines, and also by partnerships with comparison shopping, listings, and other web sites. With Seal-in-Search, site operators can provide consumers a recognizable sign that their sites are trustworthy, while realizing significant search engine optimization advantages. A study by online mall TheFind.com found that search results bearing the VeriSign seal saw 18.5 percent more click-through traffic than results that did not.

Trust the site: In addition to VeriSign’s long-established practice of authenticating businesses that operate sites protected by SSL Certificates, VeriSign SSL services now include daily web site malware scans. Hackers use malware to spread viruses, hijack computers or steal sensitive data such as credit card numbers or other personal information. For site operators, a daily malware scan helps mitigate the risk of being attacked, lessens the likelihood that their site will be blacklisted by malware-sensitive search engines, and reduces the chances that their sites may infect a visitors’ computer. How it works: The malware service will alert customers when VeriSign determines that their site has become infected. To assist customers with timely remediation, VeriSign will then provide information related to the pages that are infected, including the actual malware string.

Trust the transaction: As it has for years, VeriSign provides SSL Certificates that enable the strongest SSL encryption commercially available to keep sensitive and private information from falling into the wrong hands. As the most respected and trusted SSL authority on the web, VeriSign is the SSL Certificate provider of choice for more than 1 million web servers. In fact, 93 percent of the Fortune 500 and 97 of the world’s 100 largest SSL-using banks secure their sites with SSL Certificates provided by VeriSign and its subsidiaries.

“Every time a consumer selects a search engine result or clicks on a link to visit our store, they’ve made a decision that largely hinges on trust,” said Hadleigh Reid, founder of BillTiger.com. “As a company that competes for business online, we have to do everything we can to demonstrate that we deserve the trust that consumer has placed in us, in our brand, and in our site. VeriSign’s exciting new enhancements to its SSL services helps us earn and keep that trust, and it sets VeriSign apart from the pack by delivering far more value for the same price.”

For more information about VeriSign SSL Certificates, visit http://www.verisign.com/ssl/index.html.

Source: http://www.thehostingnews.com/verisign-malware-scanning-and-verisign-seal-in-search-to-ssl-products.html

GoDaddy a domain registrar and web hosting Solution Company now holds about 20.5% share of the SSL certificates market, which is really significant on its own, and what makes it impressive is considering Go Daddy began offering SSL certificates about four years ago. Its different than other SSL certificates providers is that Go Daddy achieved this success with only organic growth which means, it was not artificially cultivated with acquisitions or mergers.

SSL certificates (Secure Sockets Layer Certificates) are important layers when it comes to protect information online that is so sensitive.

Bob Parsons, Go Daddy CEO and Founder said “Our market share has grown so fast for one simple reason,” he also added “Our SSL Certs have all the functionality our higher-priced competitors offer – but at a fraction of the cost! Think about it, if you can get the identical product for a much lower price, backed by world-class support, why wouldn’t you? That’s why we have grown, month after month after month.”

In the August Netcraft report, Go Daddy got the largest growth for SSL, they gained 8,693 SSL Certificates. Go Daddy is also a leader for Web hosting hosted with SSL Certificates, and they are the world’s second largest SSL provider.

Mike Prettejohn, Director of analyst firm Netcraft Ltd. said “Go Daddy has increased its SSL market share every single month since June 2007,” also he added “In the space of just one year, Go Daddy’s SSL certificates have grown by more than 80 percent.”

SSL Certs is the technique to enable the browser of end user and the web hosting server to make a secure, encrypted connection as this is the standard way for protecting sensitive information from identity theft, tampering and hacking. As an example, Businesses rely on SSL Certificates to stop hackers from entering credit card information while clients do shopping and online transactions.

About Go Daddy:
Go Daddy domain registrar and web hosting provider is a leading company for services that enable businesses and individuals to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go Daddy is the provider of a big variety of domain name registration plans and Web site hosting and design plans, it is also provide a variety of on-demand services. These include services like Domains by Proxy private registration, SSL Certificates, blog templates, ecommerce Web site hosting and blog software, online photo hosting and podcast packages. Go Daddy has about 30 million domain names under management.