Verify Before You Buy Search Box

At the bottom of every page on this site, you'll find the Verify Before You Buy search box.

Use this tool to quickly see if a Web site has been issued a VeriSign® Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate. You can check to see if your favorite Web sites are secure now. Or when you're about make a purchase, you can simply copy and paste the URL into the search box and click "verify."

If the results show that the site is missing a VeriSign SSL Certificate or if the URL doesn’t begin with https://, the Web site may not be secure. Learn more about determining if a Web site is secure >>

Use this tool to quickly find out if your favorite e-commerce, banking, or other Web sites have been issued VeriSign SSL Certificates. Just enter the Web address and click "verify."

Note: Verify Before You Buy is currently limited to generic top-level domain VeriSign SSL Certificates. If the URL that you're investigating has a country code top-level domain, such as .co.uk or .de, you should use alternate means of evaluating the security of the Web site. Learn more >>