Purchasing an SSL Certificate

What to expect

Purchasing an SSL Certificate involves a number of different steps that the purchasee must carry out, fortunately it is a very straightforward process and the number of steps are only due to the layers of security and verification involved in a Secure Socket Layer Certificate. Prior to purchasing the certificate, you will have to submit accurate and real contact information for the domain name to be secured (even if the domain name has public WhoIS Privacy Protection). After purchasing the certificate, you will be sent a verification email, with which you must directly approve the creationof the SSL Certificate.

After you have approved the certificate's creation, there will be up to a 24 hour delay while the certificate authority generates the SSL Certificate at all appropriate databases and services, before the certificate's status will change from "pending" to "complete" on the SSL page and the certificate can be used.