SSL Certificate Issuer FreeSSL.com Experiences Triple Digit Growth

Based on Netcraft Data, FreeSSL's 170% Growth Eclipses Rival Comodo's Growth of 49%

DENVER, Colo., Jan. 26 2005 -- FreeSSL.com, the SSL certificate security specialist and a leader in automated certificate issuance, has announced that its growth rate for 2004 was 170%, far exceeding that of its major rival, Comodo, at the low end of the SSL certificate market. According to the recently published December 2004 Netcraft SSL Survey, Comodo grew 49% during the same period. Since its launch in 2003, FreeSSL has become a major brand at the entry-level end of the market, gaining over 2,000 distribution partners and thousands of new customers.

"In a market that grew by 30% worldwide, we are extremely pleased by our triple digit growth this past year," stated Paul Tourret, vice president of sales for FreeSSL.com. "The success of FreeSSL.com can be largely attributed to our reseller channel, which has found our rapid certificate delivery, pricing and partner programs superior to those of our competitors. In fact,
this year, we gained hundreds of resellers who previously distributed Comodo and thawte SSL certificates, and converted thousands of customers through our aggressive competitive conversion programs."

FreeSSL.com markets its StarterSSL(TM) certificates as an entry-level product for the small-to-medium size business marketplace, easing the application process for obtaining a certificate using FreeSSL.com's patent-pending automated domain control issuance process. StarterSSL has also avoided the sometimes difficult and extensive installation issues that can be associated with "chained root" certificates, often offered by other entry-level Certificate Authorities, such as Comodo and thawte.

"Our SSL Certificate product line has experienced explosive growth this past year. FreeSSL.com's StarterSSL product is one of our most popular SSL offerings and has been a key contributor to our growth," said Terry Kocek, vice president of sales with RegisterFly.com, a leading Internet Services company. "With FreeSSL.com, we can offer our clients a competitively priced product, rapidly delivered in a few minutes. Having partnered with other SSL providers before, the quality of the product coupled with exceptional customer service clearly makes FreeSSL.com stand apart from their competitors."

About FreeSSL.com
FreeSSL.com (http://www.freessl.com) is an Internet security specialist, focused on providing small/medium businesses (SMB) with strong 128 bit encryption, industry standard SSL certificates. FreeSSL.com is dedicated to being the lowest cost provider of SSL to the entry-level small-to-medium size business marketplace and offers the StarterSSL, FreeSSL and ChainedSSL Wildcard certificate brands. FreeSSL.com also offers professional Level certificates and identity assurance solutions from GeoTrust. FreeSSL.com issue single root certificates through the industry's fastest certificate provisioning system, resulting in certificates that are issued in minutes (24/7/365) and installed in seconds. FreeSSL.com owns the trusted root certificates used to issue its certificate portfolio and also provides industry leading customer care available by telephone, email and web. FreeSSL.com can be contacted at http://www.freessl.com and by telephone at US 866-795-4669 or Europe +44 (0) 870 432 5190.