Symantec SSL Certificate Reviews

The whole process was smooth, efficient & quick. I had tried to purchase a certificate from one of your cheaper competitors & ended up cancelling the order after a week [without having the certificate issued!]. After I spoke with your rep I had the certificate issued & installed on my server in under 3 hours.

Purchasing SSL units is extremely fast. Need certs asap, placed the order, sent in a PO and they showed up in my MPKI portal in less than an hour

the certification and verification was a Little bit messy (therefore only a "4" ) but then it worked..

I ordered a code signing certificate from Symantec and 6 months later I get SPAM sent to my e-mail address from EMEA WSS MARKETING asking me to post a review on this website telling the world how wonderful my experience was in purchasing a certificate from them. I would have given them a favourable rating, but since they sent me SPAM, my opinion of their marketing techniques have fallen considerably.

Help me with my installation mis configuration really fast and agent was very good

Even after about 4 consecutive years staying with them as local customers, we got around 100 bucks in discount. Nothing more. They are too expensive. Symantec / Verisign both are on the same boat. Highly overpriced. A same service or a better one can be found in some other providers for less price point.

We had been using Verisign certs for several years primarily because of name recognition but the price is through the roof. It surprises me that service can be so difficult and sparse with a company that is asking top dollar for their services. It's time for us to move on.

We're using several VeriSign certs and have found the purchase and renewal process to be easier than any of the other companies we've used in the past. Thawte was by far the most difficult. However, know what you want if it's right for your budget. VeriSign is one of the only companies that I'm aware of that charges for multiple certificates if you're load balancing. That can make an already very expensive cert even more expensive. If you need the name and it's worth it for your company, then you can't go wrong.

Having used every CA out there for a wide variety of web sites and other servers (email, vpn, as2, etc), I can say that Verisign has a very good product line for each situation, from their cheapest Secure Site to their bank-breaking EV Pro. Offlate, they have been suffering from a loss in market share because of numerous other players in the market. For most end-users, there is really no difference in a cheap class 2 godaddy cert that costs $19 to a verisign secure site class 3 cert that costs $399. Heavy users can get good discounts, though - using their Managed PKI products. IN the last few years, they changed their ROOT and Intermediate CA certs too many times - and this has caused some concerns. It is mostly bad timing but some of the changes could have been avoided by Verisign. Symantec bought Verisign's SSL business recently. Hopefully, they will continue to provide the same level of service or better it.

Well in the past we always bought VeriSign but now if we want to place an order and pay on invoice, we have to order from Switzerland, not the UK. We can still pay to a UK bank account but this seems very suspect from an issuer of certificates. Is this to avoid the VAT?