About GlobalSign the SSL Certification Authority: Company History

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GlobalSign history - a ten year timeline

GlobalSign was established over 10 years ago as one of the world’s first CA and SSL providers. With an initial focus in Europe, GlobalSign soon expanded its operations to serve a worldwide customer base. Throughout its years, a number of increasingly prestige companies have invested in GlobalSign: Belgian Chambers, Ubizen, ING Bank and Vodafone - helping sculpt the global organization and industry leading technology GlobalSign customers and partners benefit from today.

Evolution of GlobalSign

In October 2006, GlobalSign was acquired by the GMO Internet Inc (TSE: 9449) group of companies from CyberTrust and welcomed on board a brand new Management Team comprising of some of the most experienced and respected talent in the digital certificate market - with senior staff responsible for establishing and operating a number of wide reaching Certification Authority services, including those from GeoTrust Europe, GeoTrust Japan, RapidSSL.com, CyberTrust and Comodo. GlobalSign is proud to announce it is now entering a new age of direction, innovation and focus.

In the past year the market has changed significantly. GlobalSign has never been better positioned than to offer a credible, cost effective alternative to the now combined VeriSign group of companies - VeriSign, GeoTrust, Thawte and RapidSSL.

We welcome customers new and old to a re-launched and improved GlobalSign!

Notes: Holding company of GeoTrust Japan and the company behind GeoTrust Europe and RapidSSL merged after Verisign’s announcement to acquire GeoTrust Inc.

GlobalSign NV of Belgium (a member of GMO Internet Inc group TSE:9449) offers online security services and has been operating as a
trusted Root Certification Authority for over 10 years. GlobalSign Certificates are trusted by all popular Browsers,
Operating Systems, Devices and Applications and include SSL, SSL Certificates, Extended SSL Certificates, Code Signing,
Adobe CDS Digital IDs, Email & Authentication Digital IDs, Enterprise Digital IDs, internal PKI & Microsoft CA root signing.