(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT infrastructure service provider VeriSign (www.verisign.com) and domain registrar eNom (www.enom.com) announced on Monday they have partnered to make it easier for eNom resellers to offer its customers secure sockets layer certificates.
Under the new agreement, eNom will promote and distribute VeriSign branded SSL certificates through its retail and reseller channels.
“Through this new agreement, VeriSign and eNom are creating a reseller program built around the most trusted mark on the Internet,” says Jeff Eckhaus, senior vice president and general manager at eNom. “Now, website hosting companies, registrars and resellers can provide their customers with SSL certificates that bear the brand recognized more often than any other on the Web. With VeriSign, our resellers have an instant competitive advantage by launching the established VeriSign brand.”
eNom resellers can now purchase VeriSign SSL certificates through eNom’s platform-independent API and its PDQ instant reseller solution.
In addition to SSL certificates, eNom offers domain registration, email hosting, and web hosting services.
The VeriSign Secured Seal appears on Web pages of merchants whose identities have been verified by VeriSign through SSL certification.
Website visitors can click on the seal to verify a merchant’s site information in real time.
VeriSign offers a range of SSL, identity and authentication, and domain name services to companies and consumers all over the world.
In February, VeriSign began offering VeriSign Non-Federal Shared Service Provider PKI, a managed PKI service designed for all organizations needing interoperability with the federal government, including state and local governments, government contractors.
