Organization validation: your company, checked
The authority confirms that your organization exists in a public registry and that the domain belongs to it. The checked company name goes inside the certificate, where anyone who opens it can read it.
Per year on a one-year term. Two- and three-year terms are on the cards below.
Organization-validated certificates
No introductory rate: a certificate renews at the price on this page, and that price follows the authority’s.
GeoTrust True BusinessID
- Organization validation
- Covers one hostname
DigiCert Secure Site
- Organization validation
- Covers one hostname
DigiCert Secure Site Pro
- Organization validation
- Covers one hostname
What this level means
What gets checked
Your organization in a public registry, the address on file, and the domain's connection to it. A person at the authority does this, not a script.
What a visitor sees
The same padlock, and your checked company name when they open the certificate details.
When it is worth it
A shop, a client portal, anything where a visitor types in details and a partner may ask whose certificate it is.
Other validation levels
Domain validation
The authority checks that you control the domain, usually by email or a DNS record. Nothing about your company is verified.
Extended validation
The full vetting procedure: legal existence, registered address, and the authority of the person who asks.
Wildcard
One certificate for a domain and every subdomain one level below it — shop, blog, api, staging.
SSL questions
What will the authority need from me?
Whatever it cannot find on its own: usually a registry entry it can look up, a phone number it can verify from a public source, and someone who answers it. We go through the list with you before the order.
Does OV encrypt better than DV?
No. The encryption is identical. OV adds a company name that somebody checked.
Not sure which certificate you need?
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.