📅 - SSL security certificate provider Thawte (thawte.com) announced on Monday it has won 15 new partners for its Global Partner Program.
DomainBank, Domain.com, MyDomain and at least 11 other domain registrars and hosting companies have or will soon begin offering Thawte digital certificates to a customer base that has been estimated to number into the hundreds of thousands.
"It's phenomenal to have this many registrars and hosting companies switching to our brand," says Ilse Baxter, Thawte's director of business strategy, sales and marketing. "It's an acknowledgment of the effort of our sales and marketing teams who have worked diligently to deliver solutions that serve these partners' needs. These deals are helping us realize our vision, which is to enable a global trusted digital environment that will benefit everyone."
Over the past decade Thawte has signed up over 17,000 companies to its partner program, making it the largest of its kind in the world. To date, Thawte has sold over 620,000 SSL and code signing certificates, issued a million personal email certificates and enabled more than 3,000 enterprises through its SPKI Program.
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