Free SSL certificate
IncludedAlready on your site
Your visitors always see the padlock, and we are the ones who keep it there.
Every site on the platform is issued a free SSL certificate as soon as its domain points at us.
Get A CertificateCertificates you can buy start at US$15.00 a year
A certificate arrives on its own, and it is free.
Your visitors see the padlock on their first visit and on every visit after it.
It is issued for you
The moment your domain points at us, a certificate is requested, issued and installed on your site. That happens on every plan we sell that can hold a site, and it happens during the free trial as well.
It renews itself, early
Every certificate here is checked every day and yours is renewed 30 days before it runs out, so the padlock is there every morning and the renewal stays our job rather than yours.
It works in every browser
The signing certificate goes out with yours on every single connection, and that one detail is what decides whether the padlock appears on every phone, tablet and laptop your visitors use. It is handled here, for every site.
It covers www as well
Both the plain name and the www version are on the same certificate, and a staging copy of your site gets its own. Visitors reach you whichever way they type it.
- Issued for you
- Installed
- Sent with its chain
- Renewed 30 days early
Put your company name in front of your customers.
The free certificate proves you control the address. These 6 prove more than that.
Connection is secure
- What it proves
- You control the address
- Organisation
- Brightwave Studio Ltd
- Names covered
- brightwavestudio.nzwww.brightwavestudio.nz
Which one do you actually need?
For almost everybody the free certificate is the answer, and it is already on the site.
SSL DV Branded
US$15.00a year
Choose This OneSSL OV
US$90.00a year
Choose This OneSSL EV
US$210.00a year
Choose This OneSSL Wildcard DV
US$114.00a year
Choose This OneSSL Wildcard OV
US$198.00a year
Choose This OneMulti-Domain SSL
US$150.00a year
Choose This OneWhat each one proves
SSL DV Branded: proves you control the address, issued within minutes, under your own arrangement rather than ours. The right one if you want the certificate in your own name.
SSL OV: your company name sits inside the certificate, where any visitor can open it and read it. The one businesses choose when who is behind the site matters.
SSL EV: the strictest checks a certificate authority runs on a company before issuing anything. Chosen by financial and legal sites, and a person here walks the vetting through with you.
SSL Wildcard DV: one certificate covering every subdomain you have and every one you add later, so a new shop, blog or app is already covered on the day you create it.
SSL Wildcard OV: every subdomain of your domain, with your company name inside the certificate. The two upgrades in one, for a business running several services on one name.
Multi-Domain SSL: several different domains on a single certificate, so one renewal a year covers all of them instead of one renewal each.
Which one is right for you
Choose an organisation validated certificate if a customer who clicks the padlock should read your registered name rather than just your web address. Choose a wildcard if everything sits under one name, so shop, blog, app and anything you add next are all covered by one certificate. Choose the multi-domain one if you run several separate domains and would rather renew once a year than five times.
You buy it, and we fit it to your site.
Buy one of the 6 and the four steps after your payment are ours.
You pay, and we ask for it
The request goes out the moment your payment clears, with the key generated here so it never travels.
We prove the domain for you
The record that proves you own the name is published straight into your DNS by us, so the proof is done for you while you get on with your day.
We watch for it every five minutes
A job checks for the issued certificate every five minutes, day and night, so it lands as soon as the authority signs it.
We install it on your site
If the site is hosted here, the certificate and its chain are fitted for you. If it lives somewhere else, everything you need is ready to download.
Good questions, answered.
Point a domain at us and the certificate is issued, installed and renewing itself before you have finished making the tea.
Ways To Reach UsEvery certificate on this page encrypts a connection in exactly the same way, with the same modern ciphers, so the free one already gives your visitors the protection they came for. What you buy with a paid certificate is proof of identity: your registered company name inside it, or one certificate covering every subdomain, or several domains on one.
We do all of it. The free certificate is requested, installed, served with its chain and renewed 30 days early, all of it automatic, and the panel shows you the days remaining so you can watch it happen. Buying one of the 6 changes what the certificate proves, and the work is still ours.
The moment your domain starts pointing at us. Change the record with your registrar and the certificate is requested, issued and installed for you as soon as that takes effect, and the panel shows you the days remaining from the first day.
Your new site is issued its own free certificate here, so the padlock is live from the moment the domain arrives, and you can let the old one lapse. If you have bought a certificate elsewhere that still has time on it, upload it and we will fit it.
Open your site in the panel and the certificate screen shows the exact name it covers, every address it protects, the date it runs until and the days remaining, with a button that reissues it on the spot if you ever want a fresh one.
Get the padlock, free, today. Let's go.
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