Deactivate organizations in CertCentral
Learn how to deactivate organizations in CertCentral.
Before you begin
To deactivate organizations from your account, you must be a CertCentral administrator.
Deactivating an organization:
Deactivates all domains assigned to the organization.
Leaves the organization and its associated domains in your account.
Blocks certificate issuance for the organization and associated domains until you reactivate them.
Doesn’t affect organization and domain validation checks for the organization and domains.
Existing organization and domain validations remain valid until they expire.
You can't deactivate an organization included on a pending certificate request or order.
To deactivate an organization on pending requests or orders:
Reject or update pending requests and select a different organization.
Cancel pending orders.
Current certificates that include a deactivated organization and associated domains:
Remain valid until they expire or are revoked.
Can't be reissued or duplicated.
To get a new certificate for deactivated organizations and domains, you must reactivate them.
Deactivate an organization
In CertCentral, in the left main menu, go to Certificates > Organizations.
For CertCentral Subscription accounts, in the left main menu, go to Validation > Organizations.
On the Organizations page, in the Name column, select the organization you want to deactivate.
On the organization's details page, in the More actions menu, select Deactivate organization.
In the Deactivate organization window, we warn you that this action also deactivates domains assigned to the organization.
Select the domains link to view the domains that to be deactivated with the organization. Select Cancel if you don't want to deactivate the domains along with the organization.
Once ready, select Deactivate organization.
What's next
You’ve blocked certificate issuance for this organization and any associated domains in CertCentral. Before ordering a certificate for the organization and its associated domains, you must reactivate them.
Deactivate multiple organizations at one time
In CertCentral, in the left main menu, go to Certificates > Organizations.
For CertCentral Subscription accounts, in the left main menu, go to Validation > Organizations.
On the Organizations page, to the left of the Org.# column, select the organizations you want to deactivate.
Once you select a second organization, the Bulk actions menu appears.
In the Bulk actions menu, select Deactivate organizations.
In the Deactivate organizations in bulk window, we warn you that this action also deactivates domains assigned to the organizations.
Select the domains link to view the domains that to be deactivated with the organizations. Select Cancel if you don't want to deactivate the domains along with the organizations.
Once ready, select Deactivate organizations.
What's next
You’ve blocked certificate issuance for the organizations and any associated domains CertCentral. Before ordering a certificate for these organizations and their associated domains, you must reactivate them.