SSL Certificate Reseller Solutions

Offer trusted SSL/TLS certificates from leading Certificate Authorities. Choose the validation, coverage and management options that fit your customers and your business.

Powering Reseller Businesses
Around the World

  • 10M+
    Domains Under
    Management
  • 10,000+
    Active Reseller
    Partners
  • 125+
    Countries Across
    the Globe
  • 99.9%
    Platform
    Uptime

Why Offer SSL Certificates from CentralNic Reseller?

Give your customers trusted certificate products while expanding your portfolio with flexible management and automation options.

Broad Certificate Choice

Offer certificates from trusted Certificate Authorities across DV, OV and EV validation, with standard, wildcard and multi-domain coverage options.

Help Customers Build Trust

Let your customers protect their websites with encrypted connections and the appropriate level of domain, organization or extended validation.

Flexible Management

Manage certificates through the CentralNic Reseller control panel, integrate them through SSL API 2.0 or automate issuance and renewal with ACME.

Grow Your ARPU with SSL

Create additional revenue opportunities by offering SSL as a standalone product or bundle it with domains, hosting, website building and managed services.

One Platform. One Partner

Offer domains, Anycast DNS, and SSL through your existing CentralNic Reseller relationship, supported by proven infrastructure, documentation and expertise.

Prepare for Shorter Certificate Lifetimes

Use ACME automation to reduce recurring certificate administration and the risk of missed renewals from shrinking certificate validity periods.

Trusted SSL/TLS Certificate Authorities for Resellers

Give customers access to SSL/TLS certificates from established global brands, covering different validation, identity and domain-coverage requirements.

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SSL Certificate Options for Different Customer Requirements

Match your customers with the validation level that fits what they, their website or their business, need.

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DV Certificates

For fast, domain-based validation

Domain Validation confirms that the certificate applicant controls the domain. It is suitable for websites and online services that need encryption without verification of the organization behind them.

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OV Certificates

For verified business identity

Organization Validation confirms control of the domain and verifies information about the organization operating it, with a specific employee as a contact. It is suitable when customers want their business identity included in the certificate details.

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EV Certificates

For more extensive organization verification

Extended Validation applies a more rigorous verification process to the organization requesting the certificate. It is designed for customers whose certificate requirements include a higher level of verified organizational identity.

 

Expand Your Domain Business with SSL Certificates


Add SSL/TLS certificates to your existing domain reseller portfolio and give customers the security products they need alongside their domains. CentralNic Reseller makes it possible to extend your existing offering with SSL certificates from trusted Certificate Authorities, helping you build a broader portfolio of domain-related services.

Offer SSL under your own brand

Extend your existing product portfolio, without creating your own certificate infrastructure.

Create additional revenue opportunities

Resell SSL certificates as standalone products or as part of broader domain and hosting packages. 

Serve different customer requirements

Offer DV, OV and EV certificates with standard, wildcard and multi-domain coverage options.

Choose the right management model

Manage certificates through the control panel, SSL API or ACME automation, depending which fits your setup best.

SSL Certificate Reseller API for Automated Management

Integrate SSL certificate ordering and management into your own platform with CentralNic Reseller SSL API. Build certificate management into your existing customer workflows and automate SSL provisioning at scale.

Integrate SSL into your platform

Connect SSL certificate management with your existing products and customer workflows.

Reduce manual administration

Simplify recurring certificate operations with API-driven automation.

Scale with your customer base

Use automation to meet your customers’ growing SSL certificate needs, without having to increase headcount.

Combine API and reseller services

Extend your existing domain and hosting portfolio with SSL certificate products.

Automate SSL Certificate Issuance and Renewal with ACME


Shorter certificate lifetimes make manual processes harder to maintain. And by 2029 they’ll be nearly impossible to do by hand. CentralNic Reseller ACME helps automate certificate issuance and renewal for subscribed domains using compatible ACME clients.

Reduce Manual Administration

Automate recurring certificate requests and renewals instead of managing every certificate individually.

Help Prevent Service Interruptions

Reduce the risk of certificate-related interruptions caused by missed or delayed renewals.

Fit Existing Workflows

Connect a compatible ACME client, and manage validation, certificate installation and renewal configuration within your own environment.

Simplify Certificate Spending

Pay for certificate coverage for your customers’ subscribed domains without a separate charge for each certificate issued or renewed.

Let’s Grow Your SSL Reseller Business

FAQ

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates guarantee a website’s authenticity through a specific validation and issuing process executed by the Certificate Authority. It helps encrypt communication between users and online services. Depending on its validation type, it can also confirm control of a domain or verify information about the organization operating the service.

It is a business that offers their clients SSL/TLS certificates as a product, usually alongside domains and other website essentials, provisioned through a reseller platform like CentralNic Reseller.

Activate your CentralNic Reseller account, connect your systems through one of our many API options (including purpose-built SSL API and ACME) and you can set your chosen SSL certificate for sale.

You can offer different levels of validation with DV, OV and EV certificates. You can also resell wildcard and multi-domain certificates, which are designed to cover many domains with a single certificate.

In addition, CentralNic Reseller offers and manages certificates from DigiCert, Sectigo, Thwate, GeoTrust and RapidSSL. So, you can offer your customers exactly the SSL/TLS certificate they need.

Yes, by using a combination of SSL API and ACME, you can automate the entire SSL process, from purchase through issuance and renewal.

ACME stands for Automated Certificate Management Environment, and is an open, widely supported protocol for automating certificate issuance and renewal. Compatible ACME clients can also complete supported domain-validation challenges and, depending on the client and environment, install issued certificates.

At launch, CentralNic Reseller ACME supports Sectigo DV certificates for subscribed standard and wildcard domains. However, we’re planning to expand our offering to include OV certificates, as well as the ones from DigiCert, Thawte and GeoTrust.

While they are both APIs dealing with SSL, the two do different things. ACME is an open-source API that is purely focused on the technical side of an SSL certificate’s lifecycle. On the other hand, an SSL API usually handles the commercial side of the equation: Selling, ordering, etc.

Customers can use a compatible ACME client. Examples include Certbot, acme.sh, lego, win-acme and cert-manager. Capabilities depend on the selected client and its configuration.

Pre-registration is free. The subscription begins when the first domain requiring certificate coverage is added.

Additional domains share the subscription’s existing expiration date and are priced for the remaining full days of the subscription.

No. Removing a domain from an ACME certificate subscription does not cancel or transfer the domain registration, change its DNS configuration or affect its ownership.

No. CentralNic Reseller ACME is a separate certificate-automation service with its own APIs, pricing and subscription model.