Tucows Adds Comodo and Trustwave to its OpenSRS Trust Service

📅 March 16, 2011 - The addition of these two brands further extends and enhances the choice in trust and security products available to its over 11,000 resellers worldwide.

Tucows Inc., a provider of domain names, email and other internet services, today announced that its wholesale internet services division, OpenSRS, has added Comodo and Trustwave internet security products to the OpenSRS Trust Service. It also announced lower wholesale pricing on a number of GeoTrust and thawte brand SSL Digital Certificates.

The company claims that the addition of these two brands further extends and enhances the choice in trust and security products available to its over 11,000 resellers worldwide. This cost decrease allows OpenSRS Resellers to better compete on price in an evolving market for online security and trust.

According to it, the addition of Comodo and Trustwave brings the total number of OpenSRS Trust Service vendors to five, joining existing providers VeriSign, GeoTrust and thawte. OpenSRS began offering GeoTrust SSL products in 2002, and added VeriSign and thawte products in 2009. OpenSRS Trust Service is a part of a suite of wholesale services offered by OpenSRS. Resellers can also sell and manage domain names, hosted email and website publishing services through the OpenSRS platform.

"We're pleased to bring both Trustwave and Comodo security products to our resellers," said Adam Eisner, Director of OpenSRS Product Management. "Both Comodo and Trustwave have excellent reputations within the industry and we expect that these new products, along with more competitive pricing for select GeoTrust and thawte products, will be very well received by our resellers."

"Trustwave is excited to launch this partnership with OpenSRS," said Brian Trzupek, Trustwave Vice President of Managed Identity and SSL. "OpenSRS has an amazing presence in online services and we believe that the strength and affordability of our SSL offerings will open up new channels for OpenSRS resellers to offer highly trusted products from a leading brand in online security."

"We are delighted that Comodo SSL certificates will now be included in the OpenSRS Trust Service," said James Langman, Comodo Vice President Business Development. "With millions of internet users worldwide recognizing the Comodo brand as a trusted security provider and our SSL products considered among the industry's best in terms of price versus features, Comodo SSL will serve to further strengthen OpenSRS Trust Service."