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Renewing DV certificates

Important

Industry standards change: End of 2-year public SSL/TLS certificates

On August 27, 2020, DigiCert stopped issuing public DV, OV, and EV SSL/TLS certificates with a maximum validity greater than 397 days. This change may affect your early certificate renewals.

You can still renew a certificate order as early as 90 days to 1 day before it expires. When you renew, DigiCert transfers as much remaining validity as possible to the renewed certificate without exceeding the new 397-day maximum certificate validity. Any validity that we cannot transfer directly to the certificate is transferred to your order. To learn more, see End of 2-year DV, OV, and EV public SSL/TLS certificates.

Renewing your DV certificate is easy:

  1. Identify the certificate that needs to be renewed.

  2. Create a new CSR. Need help? See See Create a CSR (Certificate Signing Request).

  3. Fill in the certificate's renewal form and submit your renewal request.

Notice

DV certificates don't support domain prevalidation. When you renew a DV certificate, you must demonstrate control over the domains on the renewal order.

October 21, 2022

CertCentral: Ability to require an additional email on certificate request forms

We are happy to announce that you can now make the Additional emails field a required field on CertCentral, Guest URL, and Guest Access request forms.

Tired of missing important expiring certificate notifications because the certificate owner is on vacation or no longer works for your organization?

The change helps prevent you from missing important notifications, including order renewal and expiring certificate notifications when the certificate owner is unavailable.

See for yourself:

To change this setting for CertCentral request forms:

  1. In the left menu, go to Settings > Preferences.

  2. On the Preferences page, expand Advanced settings.

  3. In the Certificate Requests section, under Additional email field, select Required so requestors must add at least one additional email to their requests.

  4. Select Save Settings.

To change this setting for Guest Access:

  1. In the left main menu, go to Account > Guest Access.

  2. On the Guest access page, in the Guest access section, under Additional emails, select Required so requestors must add at least one additional email to their requests.

  3. Select Save Settings.

To change this setting for Guest URLs:

  1. In the left main menu, go to Account > Guest Access.

  2. On the Guest access page, in the Guest URLs section, to make it required in an existing guest URL, select the name of the guest URL. Under Emails, check Require additional emails field so requestors must add at least one additional email to their requests.

  3. To make it required on a new guest URL, select Add Guest URL and then under Emails, check Require additional emails field so requestors must add at least one additional email to their requests.

  4. Select Save Settings.