The SSL certificate guarantee covers all damages that may result from the incorrect delivery of a certificate to a fraudulent entity. For example, if a user connects to a fraudulent website but has obtained a certificate from a recognized certification authority, many legal actions can be taken against the site and the issuer of the certificate. Here, the SSL guarantee can be a little misleading because the owner of the SSL certificate can not claim it. The warranty applies only to end users.

Suppose someone buys a product on a secure HTTPS site, resulting in a loss of money. In this case, the end user is entitled to claim compensation under the warranty. The certifying authority will cover the losses according to its terms and conditions.

SSL sites are not covered by the SSL guarantee. If you provide your credit card information to paypal.com.scam.net, even though this unreliable domain may be verified by a certification authority, you are still negligent. Always carefully check the URL before sending your sensitive data to a website. In this example, the warranty can only be used if a CA has mistakenly issued an SSL certificate for paypal.com to an entity other than PayPal.

For more details, please visit the website of GeoTrust.

With a standard SSL certificate, you can only secure a subdomain (eg www.login.yourdomain.com) while a SSL Wildcard certificate, you can secure an unlimited number of subdomains (ex. : www.login.yourdomain.com, www.support.yourdomain.com, etc ...)

The static seal is only an image while the dynamic seal is connected to the site of the issuer and proves beyond doubt that the certificate is indeed valid and issued by them.

For more details, please visit the website of GeoTrust.

Depending on the situations and SSL certificate, you can usually perform the operation via your client-area and if this is not possible, you must do it via the site of the issuer (Ex.: GeoTrust).