Required information for SSL Certificates

Standard Certificates

We require the following information if you wish for us to generate a CSR and provide an SSL certificate.

Here is an example for example.com,

countryName_default="GB"
stateOrProvinceName_default="Lancashire"
localityName_default="Manchester"
organizationName_default="Example Ltd"
emailAddress_default="info@example.com"
organizationalUnitName_default="Online"
commonName_default="www.example.com"
subjectAltName_default="example.com dev.example.com"

In addition, we need some basic information from the technical contact/administrator, this information will be public, so be sure to not provide any personal details,

  • Full name
  • Contact email address
  • Contact telephone number

In addition to the above, additional information is required to prove the validity of your trading entity, this information will be public, so be sure to not provide any personal details,

  • Company name
  • Company address
  • Company country
  • Company contact telephone number
  • Company registered company name
  • Company registered company number
  • Company VAT number (if applicable)

Verification email

Our signing authorities (Thawte, Geotrust, Symantec etc.) use either email or file based validation. For email validation, please ensure that you have created the administrator email address (admin@example.com).