Thawte

Thawte, pronounced "thought," was launched in 1995 and is originally from South Africa. It became the first Certification Authority (CA) to sell public SSL certificates and was acquired later in the decade by VeriSign.

Thawte serves the online gambling industry in several ways, maintaining a focus on extending a trusted relationship on the Internet to anyone, anywhere throughout, with the following services:

• 2 year certificates,
• The t-refer referral program,
• A low-priced, fast turnaround certificate, SSL123, and
• Securing Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in digital certificates.

Their logo reads: In a world of risk, know who to trust.