“We need customers seeing we take security seriously. Otherwise they’ll just give us a miss.”
84% of online shoppers say they abandon a purchase when they realise the website is insecure.
SSL gives your website the padlock or green browser bar, reassuring visitors they’re safe on your site. Google favours secure sites so it helps to increase your search engine ranking, too.
SSL certificates from 123 Reg can be set up in a couple of clicks. They work on any website no matter where your domain is set up. And if you get stuck, our phone support can do it all for you.
So what are you waiting for? Secure your site today.
A Standard Certificate will give a single domain of your choosing full protection to keep your website secure while remaining cost-effective.
For example, a Standard SSL would cover your website address:
yourname.com and www.yourname.com
A single Wildcard Certificate can be shared among any number of subdomains on your site. Meaning you can offer maximum security across all your subdomains without needing to pay out for additional SSLs.
For example, a Wildcard SSL would cover not just yourname.com but also:
blog.yourname.com
subdomain.yourname.com
anything.yourname.com
Keep data safe. All plans come with high (128-256 bit) encryption that ensures transactions and all sensitive information is secure.
Get secured quickly. An SSL Certificate is typically approved in 4 days or less, with some plans approved in just 10 minutes!
Be up and running in no time. 123 Reg hosted accounts get one-click installation, and sites hosted elsewhere can have our friendly support walk you through the process.
Show customers they're protected. A site seal proves your SSL is in place and the padlock in the browser bar tells customers their information is safe.
Our SSL Certificates secure both www. and non-www. versions of your site; no need to buy a separate one for each.
Everyone is covered. Certificates are compatible with all major browsers, including those on mobile devices.
Do business confidently. Liability insurance protects you and your customers if your certificate is issued or used incorrectly.
Give your customers total confidence that their data is safe from online threats with our maximum security SSL, complete with an instantly recognisable green browser bar.
Every site is a little bit different - but our experts have some recommendations based on our experience in assisting businesses of all types and sizes to find their ideal safety solution.
Even if you’re not running a business, selling online or collecting customer data, our basic package, 123-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 and “Secured by” seal.
Recommended: 123-SSL or Domain SSL
If you’re running your website with a content management system, you should secure your login & 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 Organisational SSL in this situation, depending on the level of customer confidence you’d like to display.
Recommended: Domain SSL or Organisational SSL
If you have a customer login, any protected content or collect any form of confidential data, you need our Organisational 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: Organisational 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. In addition, it adds the green bar to your site that makes your credentials immediately obvious, empowering you to give your customers even greater confidence in your site’s security. In fact, displaying these trust indicators has been proven to improve conversions and sales. According to a recent study, 90% of users are more likely to trust a website that displays security indicators and are more likely to leave their details or make a purchase when they know that their data is sent over a secure connection. 29% of customers looked for the green address bar, while an additional 35% looked for the name of the company in the address bar.
Recommended: Extended SSL
Make sure you choose a Certificate offering Wildcard SSL such as Domain or Organisational as an option – and remember to select that option when you buy. This will enable you to secure as many subdomains as you need instead of having to buy a separate one for each.
Recommended: Domain SSL or Organisational SSL
To protect the emails, contacts and data being sent across your server, we recommend a Domain SSL. This Certificate strikes the right balance between price and features, with high encryption and the industry standard padlock in the search bar.
Recommended: Domain SSL
Securing an Intranet Server or Virtual Private Network is critical to protect the sensitive personal and financial information being transmitted and ensure secure site-to-site connectivity and remote access. Our Domain SSL Certificate offers an essential layer of security from both internal and outside threats while remaining a cost-effective solution.
Recommended: Domain SSL
Little Miss Festival has used the 123 Reg SSL certificate to give her customers the confidence they need when visiting her online store.
SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer and it is the predecessor of TLS – Transport Layer Security. It’s most commonly used when websites request sensitive information from a visitor, like a password or credit card number. It encrypts information sent between your website and a visitor’s web browser so that it cannot be read by a third party as it is sent across the internet.
When you buy SSL, you’re actually buying a certificate – a small data file that digitally binds a cryptographic key to your business’ online details. When installed, it secures the connections from a web server to a browser.
This is 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 package with us, we’ll automatically install your SSL for you – and if you don’t, our support will help walk you through the process.
Anyone who does business online should be using an SSL Certificate. They are most commonly used with ecommerce websites, but can be used on any website where sensitive information is exchanged, for example:
If you’ve ever bought anything online, you’ve probably used SSL without even realising it – but there are some sure-fire ways to tell and these are the things your customers will look for on your site when they buy online.
Most web browsers display a padlock when you’re viewing a site over a secure connection. When the SSL Certificate offers maximum security, the browser bar will also turn green and display the site’s credentials. 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. Ecommerce already comes with a free SSL included so you don’t need two.
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, undergoes the same validation processes, and is available either as 123-SSL, Domain SSL or Organisational 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 is always ready to help make the process fast and easy.
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 SSLs is tiny – around 1% – and because our Certificates are industry standard, every other provider will have the same compatibility rate.
Every secured website gets a small padlock image in the browser bar – but for those sites who have the maximum security level available (Extended SSL), the browser bar will also turn green and display their websites credentials.
In order to get the green browser bar for your site, you need to purchase our Extended SSL.
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.
123-SSL comes with a basic 123 Reg site seal. For extra brand awareness, you can use a site seal with our Domain, Organisational and Extended SSL certificates.
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.
Absolutely. Just choose the option you think fits best. We’ll walk you through the process and explain every step, so you’ll always know what’s coming next and how to get it done right.
The process differs a bit depending on how you plan to use your certificate:
Traditionally, in order to purchase an SSL you’d have had to supply a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). This is a file containing important information about your certificate.
If your website is hosted with us, we will create this CSR (AutoCSR) and install it for you.
If your site is hosted elsewhere, you will need to create the CSR (Manual CSR) and install it yourself. Don’t worry – we have support articles to help make this easy.
When you buy an SSL, the issuing authority will perform some checks on you or your business to verify your identity.
This step is important as it’s only by ensuring SSL Certificates are issued correctly that the security of the system can be guaranteed.
Steven T, from TRUSTPILOT
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