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NetEarth Group to Provide SSL Security Solutions as GlobalSign Platinum Partner

Leading Reseller Solution Provider, NetEarth Group chooses GlobalSign's Partner Program to offer SSL security to customers worldwide

Portsmouth, NH – 30 July, 2009 – GlobalSign (www.globalsign.com), 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 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, and China.

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:

Steve Waite
GlobalSign
+603-570-7060 / 1-877-775-4562
press@globalsign.com