December 2, 2004 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — SSL security certificate provider thawte (thawte.com) announced Tuesday at the ICANN conference in Cape Town, South Africa that it had become the first certificate authority to offer SSL certificates that fully secure internationalized domain names.
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Thawte says its systems are fully internationalized across all certificate enrolment details, including its Code Signing certificate product lines.
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The company says internationalized domain names should be secured with their own certificates so that the URL in the browser will match the contents of the certificate. Thawte says its certificates will also display the internationalized domain in local language characters.
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According to thawte, 92 percent of the world speaks a primary language other than English. It says 48 percent of Internet users are not native English speakers, and by 2007 Chinese is expected to be the number one language on the Web.
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“We are thrilled to be the first Certificate Authority to bring fully secured IDNs to the industry,” says thawte’s managing direcor Bo Wilson. “This is yet another innovation which will be available across all our SSL and Code Signing product lines and available in our Reseller, Retail and t-refer channels. Thawte is truly committed to the global market, and we look forward to bringing more features and functionality which will enable our customers and key partners to expand their global Internet reach.”
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