SSL Certificates

Even if you’re not running a business, selling online or collecting customer data, our basic package, Domain SSL, is a great place to start. This essential security and encryption will be enough to satisfy Google’s requirements for SSL-encrypted sites, and you may see a rankings boost as a result. In addition, 9 out of 10 users are more likely to trust a website with visible security indicators like the padlock in the search bar.

Recommended: Domain SSL

If you’re running your website with a content management system, you should secure your login and administrative areas, protect customer data transfer and ensure that feedback received from your comment sections and forms remains confidential. We’d recommend either Domain SSL or Organisation SSL in this situation, depending on the level of customer confidence you’d like to display.

Recommended: Domain SSL or Organisation SSL

If you have a customer login, any protected content or collect any form of confidential data, you need our Organisation or Extended SSL for our maximum security and the highest level of customer confidence. Both offer high security, but Extended SSL Certificates are ideal if you want to offer extra reassurance to your visitors and make every transaction a confident one.

Recommended: Organisation SSL or Extended SSL

For any online retailer, we recommend Extended SSL. This ensures your payments, customer logins and members-only areas of your site remain secure from online threats. According to a recent study, 90% of users are more likely to leave their details or make a purchase when they know that their data is sent over a secure connection.
Recommended: Extended SSL

An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a small data file that digitally binds a cryptographic key to your business’ online details. They’re typically used when websites request sensitive information from a visitor, like a password or credit card number.

When installed, it secures the connections from a web server to a browser and encrypts the information sent between your website and a visitor’s web browser. That way, these details cannot be read by a third-party as they’re sent across the internet.

They are issued by a trusted authority who will go through the necessary vetting to identify you, your site or your business and ensure you are who you claim. When you’re approved, you can install this certificate onto your domain name and encrypt the pages on your website.

If you have a Website Builder package with us, your SSL certificate will be automatically installed for you.

Anyone who does business online should be using an SSL Certificate for their website. Although they’re frequently used with ecommerce websites, they should be used on any sites where sensitive information is exchanged, such as:

* Entering credit card details
* Logging in with a username and password
* Viewing or sending emails
* Downloading a customer database
* Conducting online banking or sharing financial details
* Chatting in a private room

Although anyone can use a Domain SSL certificate, only registered businesses will be able to use our Organisation and Extended certificates.

This is because these certificate types verify the domain name and the company associated with it, thereby offering a greater level of trust. As such, they’re typically used for websites where users need to enter sensitive information such as payment details and contact information.

By only allowing legitimate businesses to use these certificates, this prevents scammers from misusing them.

Most web browsers display a padlock icon when you’re viewing a site over a secure connection. Additionally, the addresses of secured pages start with https:// instead of the http:// protocol.

Any domain name at all! There’s one-click installation with our web hosting, or you can purchase a standalone security certificate and we’ll help you install it elsewhere. Please note that these SSL plans are not currently compatible with our Website Builder and Ecommerce packages, since they already come with a free SSL certificate included.

This type of certificate secures your domain name as well as an unlimited number of subdomains.

For example, www.yourbusinessname.com, shop.yourbusinessname.com, and secure.yourbusinessname.com can all be protected with a single Wildcard SSL Certificate.

It works the same way as a regular SSL certificate, undergoes the same validation processes, and is available either as Domain SSL or Organisation SSL.

When generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for a Wildcard certificate, add an asterisk (*) to the left of the Common Name where you want to specify the wildcard.

Examples:

*.yourbusinessname.com secures www.yourbusinessname.com, secure.yourbusinessname.com, etc.

www*.yourbusinessname.com secures www1.yourbusinessname.com,
www2.yourbusinessname.com, etc.

*.mail.yourbusinessname.com secures secure.mail.yourbusinessname.com,
www.mail.yourbusinessname.com, etc.

It might sound complicated – but it’s really not! Our friendly support team are ready to help you should you need any guidance.

All our certificates work with every major web browser, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari.

As you can imagine, the proportion of people using browsers that aren’t compatible with our certificates is tiny – around 1% – and because they are industry standard, every other provider will have the same compatibility rate.

When you buy a 123 Reg SSL Certificate, you can use one of the site seals on your website. These instantly recognisable badges confirm to visitors that you’re protected.

When a customer clicks on the site seal, they’ll be able to view more information about your site’s identity and confirm that you really are who you say you are.

Starfield Technologies has been a Certificate Authority since 2004 and have over 1 million active SSLs in use around the world which receive over 1 billion security checks every day. Starfield certificates are trusted by every major browser in the world.

Starfield are committed to ensuring high performance standards and maintaining their high levels of security. They successfully complete 3 annual WebTrust audits of their SSL Certificates and are members of Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, Google and Oracle’s root programs, among others.

Alongside this, they are also a founding member of the CA/Browser Forum and participated in the development of the EV SSL standard.