Who owns GeoTrust?

Is GeoTrust a secure site?

Yes, the online business world relies heavily on secure and trusted web sites for transactions.

A recent study by Ponemon and Netcraft show that the number one complaint against secure and trusted websites is that they are slow and can take hours to load. The average time it takes for a site to open is 4.7 seconds. For mobile, these websites should never be used.

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What is the difference between GeoTrust and DigiCert?

I use DigiCert as my primary certificate authority, but my customer has a GeoTrust certificate.

When I log in to their server with the domain, I do not see DigiCert anywhere in the certificate selection drop down. I know it is a GeoTrust issue, not a DigiCert one.

If I remove DigiCert from the certificate authorities and use only the GeoTrust one, it will allow me to sign in. Why doesn't it work with DigiCert? This depends on your Certificate Authority (CA). The difference between GeoTrust and DigiCert is that DigiCert issues certificates based on an extended validation path. They are known as Extended Validation (EV) certificates.

GeoTrust issues certificates based on the CA-AIA or Alternative Path Architecture (AIA) which is a simpler approach that GeoTrust. DigiCert's EV certificates use one of three CAs: GlobalSign, Symantec, Thawte.

Is GeoTrust good?

I am trying to find a good provider of SSL certs.

I have a customer that wants me to sell them SSL cert's for their domain name. They have an IT team that does nothing but the one domain name. The domain is:
The IT team would like to install GeoTrust because it is recommended by a couple of companies that they know and they use. However, when they go to GeoTrust.com to buy the certificate, they are presented with an order form and a list of "required features". The required features are different than the ones listed on GeoTrust's order form.

The list of required features from GeoTrust are: DNS Validation. IP address Binding. IP address Validation During Renewal. IP Address Binding During Renewal. Manual Renewals. The list of features that I am using are: CPS Validation. TLS V1.0 TLS V1.1 TLS V1. Does this sound like a good price to you? What you're doing sounds very reasonable, unless GeoTrust has some kind of exclusivity deal with your customer. Do not worry about the list of features. If you need to do TLS 1.1 or higher, you should include that. If you only need to do TLS 1.0, you can use a cheap certificate provider that doesn't even offer TLS 1.

I think that GeoTrust may be targeting the commercial market for themselves, as you might have a small business, or might be in a non-profit. I'd be wary of a company that offers to sell you certificates that don't meet your needs.

As many have already mentioned, you don't have to include all the features offered by GeoTrust. On the other hand, if you intend to make more than just the one certificate, you'll have to use the advanced plans. But as you said, you only need one certificate for one domain, so you're probably fine using the basic plan.

Who owns GeoTrust?

The answer to that question is easy.

There is no one answer to that question. What I can tell you is that it has something to do with an organization that was founded in 1984 called the Internet Security Association (ISA). It is the sole publisher of the industry-standard GeoTrust SSL Web server certificate. I'm sure the people at ISA don't like to be called the GeoTrust company, but that's who we are.

What kind of business is GeoTrust? GeoTrust is a for-profit company, and ISA is its trade association. ISA has nothing to do with either GeoTrust or the company that makes the software. ISA only promotes GeoTrust products and services. When your customers think of GeoTrust, what they really see is ISWhy does ISA do this?

The answer is the same as for why it would be against the law for a gun manufacturer to put the term Smith & Wesson on the butt of a pistol. Just like your gun, there is a lot going on behind the scenes that is not all that easy to describe on the surface. ISA wants the public to think that GeoTrust owns the GeoTrust name, and they are using ISA to make that happen.

Why is it illegal? There's an important reason why it is illegal for one business to own another business' trademark. GeoTrust is using the term GeoTrust to describe the company that makes software. That's just one way to use a trademark. It's also a trademark violation to call your products by the name of the company that owns the name.

How can we stop ISA from holding on to the GeoTrust name? ISA doesn't own the GeoTrust trademark, so you can't do anything to stop them. You can complain to your customers, though. Let them know that if they have any interest in GeoTrust, they might want to take a good look at whether or not ISA is getting its information from the GeoTrust website. Just like when you try to stop a thief from taking your car, you aren't going to drive off the street, you need to report it to the police.

But how can I report ISA to the police?