GlobalSign® Corporate Information

Liquid Web chooses GlobalSign's SSL Partner Program

Leading webhosting company, Liquid Web chooses GLobalSign to offer customers reliable security and cost effective SSL Certificates.

Portsmouth, NH – 27 July, 2009 – GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, today announced a new partnership with Liquid Web, a leading provider of premium web hosting products and data center infrastructure. The newly formed partnership will allow customers to purchase SSL Certificates in conjunction with their current web hosting solutions, providing convenience and ease for many customers who would normally have to purchase from two separate companies.

As a leader in the professional web hosting market, Liquid Web chose to seek out a leading SSL provider who could offer both cost effective and reliable SSL security solutions. Liquid Web will be offering GlobalSign’s SSL Certificates bundled together within their existing hosting packages, allowing Liquid Web to enhance their current offerings while showing customers a strong commitment to continually providing superior and dependable web-hosting solutions. The partnership will enable Liquid Web to offer all three types of SSL Certificates, the fast issuance Domain Validation SSL, traditional Organization Validation SSL, and the newly standardized Extended Validation (EV) SSL, which activates the green address bar interface in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari browsers.

“We chose GlobalSign based on reliability, cost and overall ROI,” said Travis Stoliker, Marketing Director of Liquid Web. “Our customers have increasing security concerns which prompted us to find a provider who could offer the most reliable and cost effective SSL security solution.”

“With security concerns and compliance issues rising, more and more web-hosting companies receive requests from their current customers for additional security solutions or an all inclusive web-solution,” says Katsuo Chujo, Marketing Director, GlobalSign Inc. “GlobalSign’s partner program allows web solution providers the ability to generate a new revenue stream from a competitive product line by offering a product their customers require and already buy from elsewhere.”

Liquid Web currently offers three web hosting package levels; Standard, Webmaster, and Professional, all designed for clients who need bulletproof reliability and support at an affordable rate. Liquid Web chose to bundle together GlobalSign’s SSL Certificates into their Professional web hosting package which is the most robust out of the three. Liquid Web also intends on becoming a Platinum Partner to take advantage of deeper pricing discounts, enhanced product development and additional sales and marketing resources including a co-branded site seal. The co-branded site seal will display both Liquid Web and GlobalSign’s logo to help educate web visitors on the security technology employed to protect transactions performed on the website, which are securely encrypted with GlobalSign’s strong SSL technology. All GlobalSign SSL Certificates are inclusive of Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) (to “step up” weak browser encryption to strong encryption on older browsers), and are issued from the widely distributed 2048 bit GlobalSign Root CA Certificate.

GlobalSign SSL Certificates are available immediately at http://www.liquidweb.com.

For information on GlobalSign’s partner program, please visit www.globalsign.com/partners/

About Liquid Web
Liquid Web Inc. (www.LiquidWeb.com) is a privately held managed web hosting company founded in 1997, with three wholly owned data center facilities located in Lansing, Michigan.  Liquid Web is a leader in the professional web hosting market with an unwavering dedication to providing the best hosting products available. Liquid Web has over 20,000 clients served in over 120 countries and has assembled a world class Heroic Support staff and a proactive Sonar Server Monitoring team who is professionally educated and easily accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Liquid Web received the INC.5000 Fastest Growing Companies award in 2007 and 2008.

About GMO GlobalSign
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL Certificates, EV SSL, Managed SSL Services, S/MIME email security and Code Signing for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Its Trusted Root solution uses the widely embedded GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust for Microsoft Certificate Services and internal PKI, eliminating the costs of using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF documents, certified transcripts and e-invoices.  These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of authenticated customers to conduct secure online transactions, data transfer, distribution of tamper-proof code, and protection of online identities for secure email and access control.  The company has a history of innovation within the online security industry and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, China and Singapore.

GMO Internet Group
GMO Internet Group is one of the most comprehensive providers of industry-leading Internet services worldwide. As well as domain registration, web hosting, ecommerce, and payment processing businesses that each hold the top share in their respective markets in Japan, services operated by the group include Internet advertising, search engine marketing and research. Global online security brand GlobalSign and major Japanese online securities brokerage, GMO CLICK Securities are also group members. In 2011 a new Social Media & Smartphone Platform segment was established bringing together group initiatives in social apps development, flash marketing and Android apps distribution. GMO Internet, Inc. (TSE: 9449) is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Please visit www.gmo.jp/en for more information.

For further details please contact:

GlobalSign Australia
Tel: +61 3-9988-3988
pr-apac@globalsign.com