{"id":1003,"date":"2017-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:09:09","slug":"https-ssl-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/https-ssl-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance Of HTTPS Via SSL Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An SSL Certificate for your website is of paramount importance to you, as a website owner. You need to be your client\u2019s \u2018online-bodyguard\u2019, especially if you are asking them to submit personal information via your website. They could be accessing your unprotected website with WiFi in a public place and not realizing that someone is \u2018eavesdropping\u2019 and stealing their private information that was requested from either a signup form or even worse, a purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/images\/kb\/Domains-Blog\/Browsers-Unsecure-Sites.jpg\" alt=\"The Importance Of HTTPS Via SSL Certificates\" title=\"How Google Chrome and FireFox display Unsecure Websites\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h4>TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/h4><nav><ul><li><a href=\"#what-is-https-ssl-certificates\">What is HTTPS: SSL Certificates<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#google-ensuring-a-more-secure-web-via-ssl-certificates\">Google Ensuring A More Secure Web via SSL Certificates<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#domains-co-za-ssl-certificates\">Domains.co.za SSL Certificates<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#How to Install a Free SSL Certificate\">How to Install a Free SSL Certificate<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-is-https-ssl-certificates\">What is HTTPS: SSL Certificates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you had a SSL Certificate it would create encrypted traffic and HTTPS is used to portray this. HTTPS means that the TLS (Transport Layer Security)* has been added to encrypt traffic travelling to and from your website. This encrypted traffic between your website\u2019s server and your client\u2019s browser (whether on a personal computer or mobile device), is indicated in the URL address bar of their browser as a HTTPS prefix and usually has a \u2018locked padlock\u2019 icon as well.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/images\/kb\/Domains-Blog\/Browsers-Secure-Sites.jpg\" alt=\"The Importance Of HTTPS Via SSL Certificates\" title=\"How Google Chrome and FireFox currently display SSL Secured Websites\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not only is this used to ensure that personal information entered by your visitor, and any other communication, is encrypted &#8211; it also <strong>validates you<\/strong> as a business owner. This validation has nothing to do with the size of your business, but rather your professionalism and public image; it assures your website visitors that you are authentic (you are who you say you are) and that you have integrity by assuring their online safety is also your concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-059abae4d45c3debaedf5362f011f262 wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that it is estimated that more than 85% of internet users usually ignore security alerts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"google-ensuring-a-more-secure-web-via-ssl-certificates\">Google Ensuring A More Secure Web via SSL Certificates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google themselves released a <a href=\"https:\/\/security.googleblog.com\/2016\/09\/moving-towards-more-secure-web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Security Blog<\/a> stating that Google Chrome 56 would start indicating a site\u2019s security connection with an icon in January 2017, which will actually state \u2018Not secure\u2019 next to the URL address. This \u2018mark\u2019 on your website page\u2019s URL will specifically be on sites where sensitive information is collected without the validity of a SSL Certificate e.g. Password and Credit Card information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is only the beginning, as Google is out to \u2018make the web secure\u2019 for everyone and will continue this until they eventually use a red triangle icon with red \u2018Not Secure\u2019 text to really make sure that internet users notice an unsecure website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"domains-co-za-ssl-certificates\">Domains.co.za SSL Certificates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domains.co.za ensures that you can provide your customers and yourself peace of mind with both month-to-month and annual SSL Certificates. For our Web Hosting and Site Builder clients, we have the month-to-month Comodo Domain Validated SSL Certificate which you can access via your Control Panel. For all our other clients and Resellers, you can choose the most appropriate Organization Validated SSL Certificate for your business: <a alt=\"Link to Domains.co.za - Domain Validated SSL Certificates\" title=\"Domains.co.za - Domain Validated SSL Certificates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/ssl\/domain-validated-ssl-certificates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Domain Validated Certificates<\/a> and <a alt=\"Link to Domains.co.za - Organization Validated SSL Certificates\" title=\"Domains.co.za - Organization Validated SSL Certificates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/ssl\/organization-validated-ssl-certificates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GeoTrust True BusinessID, EV &amp; Wildcard SSL Certificates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transport_Layer_Security\" alt=\"Link to Wikipedia - Transport Layer Security\" title=\"Wikipedia - Transport Layer Security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TLS (Transport Layer Security)<\/a> is the successor of the original SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"How to Install a Free SSL Certificate\">How to Install a Free SSL Certificate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>VIDEO:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AreIiPfXHzM\" alt=\"Link to Domains.co.za - How to Install a Free SSL Certificate\" title=\"Domains.co.za - How to Install a Free SSL Certificate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Install a Free SSL Certificate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AreIiPfXHzM\" alt=\"Domains.co.za YouTube - How to Install a Free SSL Certificate\" title=\"Domains.co.za YouTube - How to Install a Free SSL Certificate\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An SSL Certificate for your website is of paramount importance to you, as a website owner. You need to be your client\u2019s \u2018online-bodyguard\u2019, especially if you are asking them to submit personal information via your website. They could be accessing your unprotected website with WiFi in a public place and not realizing that someone is \u2018eavesdropping\u2019 and stealing their private information that was requested from either a signup form or even worse, a purchase. What is HTTPS: SSL CertificatesGoogle Ensuring A More Secure Web via SSL CertificatesDomains.co.za SSL CertificatesHow to Install a Free SSL Certificate What is HTTPS: SSL Certificates If you had a SSL Certificate it would create encrypted traffic and HTTPS is us <a alt='The Importance Of HTTPS Via SSL Certificates' title='The Importance Of HTTPS Via SSL Certificates' href='https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/https-ssl-certificates\/' class='moreElipsis'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010],"tags":[1014,1013,1015,1016],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssl-certificates","tag-comodo-ssl-for-hosting-clients","tag-domains-co-za-has-ssl-certificates","tag-https-secure-sites","tag-online-bodyguard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domains.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}