NetEarth Group to Provide SSL Security Solutions as GlobalSign Platinum Partner

Portsmouth, NH, – 30 August 2009 - GlobalSign, Inc , one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in SSL Partner Programs, has today announced that leading reseller solution provider, NetEarth Group, has joined the GlobalSign Partner Program as a Platinum Partner and will be promoting GlobalSign’s full range of SSL Certificates. The newly formed partnership will allow resellers to easily obtain, install, and activate SSL security to secure their website transactions, login pages, webmail, and connections using GlobalSign’s highly trusted 2048 bit SSL technology.

NetEarth Group, with thousands of resellers spread over five continents, sought to partner with a well-established, leading Certificate Authority who could offer a comprehensive range of value added SSL Certificates to complete their existing product portfolio of website solutions including domain registration, Linux and Windows web hosting, and Email anti-spam & antivirus software. NetEarth Group is launching www.sslreseller.com to promote GlobalSign’s highly trusted SSL Certificates. All types of SSL Certificates will be available at the new website. By offering SSL Certificates from a leading SSL provider, NetEarth Group demonstrates to resellers that customer protection is a key priority.

“GlobalSign’s future proof SSL is the best fit for our reseller webhosting and domain registration services”, said Chris Pelling, CEO, NetEarth Group.  “We want to enlighten our resellers about online security and offer affordable SSL encryption to their customers’ websites and GlobalSign allows us to do exactly this.”

“With thousands of resellers worldwide, we are excited NetEarth Group has chosen to offer GlobalSign’s SSL solutions to such an extensive and diffuse audience.” says Katsuo Chujo, Marketing Director, GlobalSign, “Awareness and concerns about online security are growing,  NetEarth Group and their resellers will benefit immediately from GlobalSign’s feature packed, trusted solutions.”

GlobalSign’s Platinum Partner level offers greater benefits than the traditional SSL Reseller Partner Program. By becoming a platinum partner, NetEarth Group can take advantage of additional support in areas of integration, product development, customer support, marketing, and sales. Among additional benefits extended to Platinum Partners are deeper pricing discounts, full XML API solutions, enhanced training, PR opportunities, and co-branding opportunities including a co-branded site seal.

GlobalSign’s SSL products are neatly arranged into three groups, categorized by different vetting processes: fast issuance Domain Validation, traditional Organization Validation and Extended Validation (EV) SSL, which activates the green address bar interface in IE, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, and Safari browsers. This user-friendly grouping methodology makes GlobalSign SSL Certificates easy to understand and more importantly easy to sell. All GlobalSign SSL Certificates are issued from a 2048 bit Root CA Certificate, are trusted by all browsers and applications, are inclusive of SGC (security to ensure minimal encryption strengths of at least 128 bit and up to 246 bit), and support custom options such as wildcard technology and Subject Alternative Names (SANs for Unified Communications) to enable the securing of multiple sites with a single certificate.

GlobalSign SSL Certificates are available from NetEarth Group at:
https://www.sslreseller.com

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

About NetEarth

NetEarth Group (www.netearthgroup.com) established in 2007 is a consortium of subsidiary companies that provide Internet Services in the USA and Europe. NetEarth Group comprised subsidiary brands include NetEarth One, NetEarth UK and SSLReseller. NetEarth One (www.netearthone.com) as an accredited ICANN registrar, offers a wide range of website solutions. These include web hosting, domain registration, email anti-virus & anti-spam filtering and other website applications including; shopping carts and live chat applications. SSLReseller (www.sslreseller.com) an online company was developed exclusively to promote the GlobalSign product portfolio to resellers giving them access to pricing and product information.

About GlobalSign
Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL, including new Extended Validation SSL Certificates, S/MIME and Code Signing Certificates for use on all Windows platforms including Mobile. The GlobalSign Trusted Root program allows the widely distributed and highly trusted GlobalSign root CA certificates to provide immediate trust for Microsoft CA and other in-house CA users, thereby eliminating the costs associated with supporting non-trusted root CA certificates within an enterprise. These core GlobalSign solutions allow its thousands of enterprise customers to conduct secure online transactions and data submission, and provide tamper-proof distributable code as well as being able to bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication, such as SSL VPNs.  The company has a rich history of innovation within the online security market and operates sales and support offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China with services available in a number of European and Asian languages.

About GMO Internet Group
GMO Internet Group, headquartered in Japan, is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services worldwide. The group holds top domestic market share in domain registration, web hosting, and payment processing and provides a host of other Internet services including global online security services, e-commerce solutions, and Internet advertising to both businesses and individuals. At the centre of the group is GMO Internet, Inc. a company listed on the prestigious first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE: 9449). Please visit www.gmo.jp/en for further details.