June 27, 2006 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Certification authority Thawte, Inc. (http://www.thawte.com) has gained 15 new partners that will offer its products and services to their customers. The new partners include domain registrars and web hosting providers such as DomainBank, Domain.com, and MyDomain.com, who combined have a potential customer base of hundreds of thousands of users.
"It's phenomenal to have this many registrars and hosting companies switching to our brand," said Thawte's Director of Business Strategy, Sales and Marketing, Ilse Baxter. "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. In the past few months our teams have concluded deals that have resulted in many leading global brands signing deals with us."
Thawte has over 17,000 companies in its Partner Program and has sold over 620,000 SSL and Code Signing Certificates. The company has also issued a million Personal E-mail Certificates and enabled more than 3,000 enterprises through its SPKI Program. "These deals are helping us realize our vision, which is to enable a global trusted digital environment that will benefit everyone. Through enabling the many hundreds of thousands of new customers that these deals represent, we are helping many thousands of companies win the trust and confidence of their customers and users. We do this by providing stringent verification and authentication process, arguably the best the industry has to offer, innovative and cost effective solution-based services, and outstanding global support," added Mr. Baxter.
