Before the Certification Authority (CA) issues a Deluxe SSL certificate, the applicant's company or personal information undergoes a rigorous authentication process. Validation is an integral element in the CA's SSL certificate services. This validation process ensures the highest level of trust.

The Deluxe SSL certificate contains the name of an organization that can be confirmed as registered with a government authority or the name of the individual requesting the certificate, if the organization name cannot be authenticated (using a third-party data source).

In the case of a small business, the CA includes the entity's "doing business as" (DBA) name in the certificate information.

Before issuing an Deluxe SSL certificate, the CA will verify that:

• The entity requesting the certificate controls the domain for which the certificate is being requested.
• The certificate is being issued to an organization that is currently registered with a government authority (if applicable).
• The individual requesting the certificate is associated with the entity named in the certificate (if applicable).

If the CA is unable to authenticate the requesting entity, the requestor in some cases may be able to fix the problem by providing additional documentation to enable authentication. The CA will notify you if additional documentation is needed.

If — while processing a Deluxe Web SSL certificate request — the CA is unable to authenticate the existence/identity of the requesting entity, the requestor will have the option of aborting the validation process and instead have the CA issue a SSL certificate, which relies on validation of domain control only. If the requestor declines this option, the certificate request will be denied.