Secure Your Website.
Protect Every Connection.

Enable HTTPS, encrypt information exchanged with your website, and give visitors greater confidence with a trusted SSL certificate.

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Why Your Website
Needs SSL?

Every visit, login, form submission, and transaction can involve information moving between a visitor's browser and your website. SSL helps protect that information while giving visitors a more secure browsing experience.

Choose an SSL Certificate

Protect Information in Transit

Encrypt information exchanged between your website and its visitors, helping prevent it from being read or altered during transmission.

Enable Trusted HTTPS

Activate HTTPS for your domain and give visitors a clear indication that their connection to your website is encrypted.

Build Visitor Confidence

Show customers, clients, and users that you take the security of their information seriously.

Support Modern Website Requirements

Use the secure connection expected by modern browsers, online services, login systems, and payment experiences.

How SSL Certificates Work

An SSL certificate creates an authenticated, encrypted connection between your website and its visitors. This helps prevent information from being read or altered while it travels across the internet.

Find the Right SSL Certificate

Choose the Right Level

Each validation level offers a different degree of identity verification. Match your certificate to your website type and audience.

DVFast issuance

Domain Validation

Fast, straightforward protection that confirms control of the domain.

OVRecommended

Organization Validation

Includes domain verification and checks information about the organization requesting the certificate.

EVHighest trust

Extended Validation

Uses a more detailed verification process to confirm the organization's legal and operational identity.

Choose Your SSL Certificate

Select the protection that matches your website, organization, and domain structure.

Essential

RapidSSL

Single-domain SSL protection with fast issuance and easy installation.

$44/ year

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Certificate details

Single-domain SSL — protects one domain
Fast issuance and easy installation
SSL encryption up to 256-bit
99% browser compatibility
Free web and email support

SUBDOMAIN COVERAGE

RapidSSL Wildcard

Wildcard SSL protection for one main domain and unlimited associated subdomains.

$179/ year

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Certificate details

Domain Validated (DV) certificate
Protects one main domain
Covers unlimited associated subdomains
Full 256-bit SSL encryption
Issued within minutes

GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium

Cost-effective SSL protection for one fully qualified domain name.

$134/ year

GeoTrust QuickSSL Premium Confirm term and renewal price before checkout.

Certificate details

Domain Validated (DV) certificate
Covers one domain—www or non-www
Issued within minutes
Includes a dynamic site seal
Unlimited server licensing

Prices apply to standard annual certificate terms and may change. Taxes, additional domains, or validation requirements may affect the final total.

What Happens After Your Order?

Follow these steps to activate your SSL certificate and secure your website.

Complete the validation

Follow the certificate authority's instructions to confirm your domain or organization.

Receive your certificate

Your certificate is issued after the required checks are completed.

Install and activate HTTPS

Install the certificate on your hosting server and redirect your website to HTTPS.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about SSL certificates, validation, installation, and HTTPS.

What does an SSL certificate do?

An SSL certificate authenticates your website and encrypts information exchanged between the site and its visitors, enabling HTTPS.

Which SSL validation level should I choose?

Domain Validation suits personal and informational websites, Organization Validation adds organization checks for business websites, and Extended Validation provides the most detailed identity verification.

What happens after I order an SSL certificate?

You complete the required domain or organization validation, receive the certificate after approval, then install it on your hosting server and redirect the website to HTTPS.

How can I check whether my SSL certificate is active?

Use the SSL certificate checker to review its status, validity, expiration date, and configuration.

What is the difference between DV, OV, and EV certificates?

DV confirms control of the domain. OV also verifies information about the organization. EV uses a more detailed process to confirm the organization’s legal and operational identity.

Do I need a wildcard SSL certificate?

A wildcard certificate is useful when you need to secure one domain and all of its first-level subdomains with a single certificate.

Can Register.ly help install my SSL certificate?

Yes. The Register.ly team can help install and configure your certificate correctly.

How much does an SSL certificate cost?

The page lists annual options starting at $9. The final total can vary based on taxes, additional domains, validation requirements, and the selected certificate.