The authority checks one thing — that the domain is yours to use — with an email to an address on it, a DNS record or a file it reads from the site. Nothing about your company is verified, which is why this level costs the least and asks the least of you.
Per year on a one-year term. Two- and three-year terms are on the cards below.
No introductory rate: a certificate renews at the price on this page, and that price follows the authority’s.
Control of the domain: an email to an address on it, a DNS record you add, or a file the authority reads from the site.
A padlock and an encrypted connection, the same as at every other level. The certificate names the domain and nothing else.
A blog, a brochure site, a staging domain, an internal tool — anywhere nobody needs to know which company is behind the name.
The authority confirms your company in a public registry and writes the checked name into the certificate.
The full vetting procedure: legal existence, registered address, and the authority of the person who asks.
One certificate for a domain and every subdomain one level below it — shop, blog, api, staging.
The encryption is the same. What differs is what the certificate tells a visitor about who is behind the domain — DV says nothing about that.
A DV certificate for subdomains is a wildcard, and two of the DV certificates here are sold that way. They are listed on the wildcard page.
Tell us the domain and what it has to satisfy — a payment provider, an audit, a client's checklist — and we will say which level is enough.