FreeSSL.com Launches Aggressive Trade-up Promotion; Offers FREE SSL Certificates to Convert thawte Customers [June 22, 2004]

FreeSSL.com Will Enable Customers with thawte Certificates to Trade-up to
RapidSSL™ Certificate Program for FREE!

DENVER, CO – June 22, 2004 -- FreeSSL.com, the SSL certificate security specialist and a leader in automated certificate issuance, has announced an aggressive trade-up promotion targeted at thawte SSL server certificate customers. FreeSSL.com will give a free one-year secure sockets layer (SSL) server certificate to any existing thawte customer if they renew or replace their current thawte certificate with a RapidSSL certificate.

“thawte customers have been flocking to FreeSSL.com to experience a faster, more automated issuance process for SSL certificates -- at a significantly better price. And recent market share reports, such as Netcraft, bear out that thawte, and its parent company VeriSign, are losing ground against their competitors,” stated Paul Tourret, vice president of sales for FreeSSL.com. “We are so convinced that customers who use FreeSSL.com products will remain satisfied customers, that we are offering a free certificate to prove it. We want thawte customers to have a better alternative, and that’s FreeSSL.com,” he added.

RapidSSL is a product offering that includes FreeSSL.com's leading StarterSSL™ certificate bundled with live, one-to-one support from FreeSSL.com's expert customer service staff. The RapidSSL package includes a 128-bit StarterSSL certificate that is a highly-trusted, single-root install SSL certificate. StarterSSL has been extremely successful as an entry-level product for the small-to-medium size business marketplace, easing the application process for obtaining a certificate using FreeSSL.com's patent-pending automated domain control issuance process. StarterSSL has also avoided the sometimes difficult and extensive installation issues that can be associated with "chained root" certificates, often offered by other entry-level Certificate Authorities, such as Comodo and thawte. The enhanced support available with RapidSSL ensures that a customer's SSL application and installation process is streamlined, trouble-free and extremely fast.

If a customer has a valid non-expired thawte certificate, FreeSSL.com will give that customer a free one-year RapidSSL certificate. RapidSSL is normally priced at $99.00 (U.S.) for a one-year certificate and can be purchased online from www.freessl.com. Multi-year discounts are available on 2- or 3-year certificates.

About FreeSSL.com
FreeSSL.com (www.freessl.com) is an Internet security specialist, focused on providing small/medium businesses (SMB) with strong 128 bit encryption, industry standard SSL certificates. FreeSSL.com is dedicated to being the lowest cost provider of SSL to the entry-level small-to-medium size business marketplace and offers the StarterSSL, FreeSSL and ChainedSSL Wildcard certificate brands. FreeSSL.com also offers Professional Level certificates and identity assurance solutions from GeoTrust.

FreeSSL.com issue single root certificates through the industry's fastest certificate provisioning system, resulting in certificates that are issued in minutes (24/7/365) and installed in seconds. FreeSSL.com owns the trusted root certificates used to issue its certificate portfolio and also provides industry leading customer care available by telephone, email and web. FreeSSL.com can be contacted at www.freessl.com and by telephone at US 720 359 1590 or Europe +44 (0) 870 4325190.