{"id":549,"date":"2017-03-02T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T09:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/knowledgebase\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=549"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:41:49","slug":"locality-presence-for-ov-ssl","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.thesslstore.com\/knowledgebase\/ssl-validation\/locality-presence-for-ov-ssl\/","title":{"rendered":"Locality Presence Verification Requirements for OV SSL Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Organization Authentication<\/a>, the next requirement for an Organization Validated SSL certificate is proving Locality Presence. For this requirement, the Certificate Authority (CA) will try to verify that your organization or company has an active legal presence in its registered location.<\/p>\n

What is Locality Presence<\/h2>\n

To fulfill the Locality Presence requirement, the Certificate Authority needs to verify that your organization has a legitimate physical presence within the country or state it’s registered in. The CA doesn’t need to verify the actual street address, just the city, state or country in the address.<\/p>\n

Usually, the CA will attempt to verify this information by searching an Online Government Database<\/a>. It will look in the relevant database and check the registration details \u2013 the city\/state\/country in your address \u2013 against the details you provided at the outset of the process.<\/p>\n

If everything checks out, you’re good to go\u2014you have satisfied this requirement.<\/p>\n

However, if everything doesn’t match exactly, you’ll need to utilize another method to prove your locality presence.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, there are three other ways to satisfy this requirement.<\/p>\n

Additional Methods<\/h2>\n