Tokyo – August 14, 2008 – GMO Hosting & Security consolidated subsidiary and digital certificate service provider, GlobalSign K.K. together with Yahoo Japan Corporation is set to launch new authentication services. GlobalSign has over ten years experience issuing SSL and other digital certificates. The new services, slated for release this fall, add even more value to GlobalSign products by including a listing on the Yahoo! JAPAN web site. GlobalSign and Yahoo Japan continue to seek opportunities to work together in creating never before available, high value services. GMO Hosting & Security is a GMO Internet Group Company.

Service Features
The collaboration will offer three new services; Organization Validation Certificate Services, Domain Verification SSL Server Certificate Services, and a combination of the two, Organization Validation + Domain Verification SSL.
We offer a site seal for each service enabling visitors to a web site to tell at glance that the provider has been authenticated and that they are visiting a trusted site. In addition, customers using Organization Validation Certificate Services will have their sites listed on leading Japanese portal site, Yahoo! JAPAN.
These services increase trust in our customerfs web sites. GlobalSign will be chiefly responsible for provision of organization validation and SSL server certificates while Yahoo! JAPAN will list links to certified company web sites.

Service Name	Details	Site Seal
1. Organization Validation supported by Yahoo! JAPAN Price: 52,500 yen /per year (tax inc.)	Organization Validation + Directory Listing This service includes organization validation, domain verification and a site seal that certifies that the site has been verified. The site URL also appears on both Yahoo and GlobalSign web sites.
2. Domain Verification SSL supported by Yahoo! JAPAN Price: 42,000 yen /per year (tax inc.)	SSL Provision This service includes domain name verification, SSL server certificate for encrypted communication and a site seal certifying that communications are protected by encryption.
3. Organization Validation + SSL supported by Yahoo! JAPAN Price: JPY 84,000 /per year (tax inc.)	Organization Validation + SSL + Directory Listing This service includes organization validation, domain name verification, SSL server certificate for encrypted communication and a site seal that certifies validation and that communications are protected by encryption. The site URL also appears on both Yahoo and GlobalSign web sites.	In Production

Seeking Sales Partners
Ahead of the service launch GlobalSign will be seeking sales partners beginning at the end of August. (Please contact the GlobalSign corporate sales department for a partner application sales@globalsign.co.jp)

GlobalSign
GlobalSign was among the first digital authentication services established and the Certificate Authority has now supplied the Belgium market for over ten years. GlobalSign is the preferred Certificate Authority of the eID*(BELPIC) project and provides validation for the Belgium government Certificate Authority. The company joined the GMO Internet Group in 2006 and now provides authentication services in Japan and throughout the world.
*eID: A citizen ID card. This is the first stage of the e-government project in Belgium. The ID card containing a digital certificate is distributed to all Belgian citizens over the age of 12.

Yahoo JAPAN
Yahoo! JAPAN the comprehensive Internet information site operated by Yahoo Japan Corporation receives around 52 million unique users each month* and 1.6 billion page views every day. The site offers a vast range of services including itfs search engine, communities, content, shopping and mobile phone services.
*Number of unique Yahoo! JAPAN customers is calculated based on June 2008 Nielsen Online, NetView AMS JP household and workplace viewing rates (88.8% and 89.8% respectively) and Internet user numbers from Nielsen Online, Internet Research (approx. 58.61 million).

Media Inquiries
GlobalSign K.K. Public Relations
E-mail: pr@globalsign.co.jp
GMO Hosting and Security Inc. Corporate Planning Department
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GMO Internet Inc. Group PR Team
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About GMO Internet Group
GMO Internet Group, headquartered in Japan, is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services worldwide. The group holds top domestic market share in domain registration, web hosting, and payment processing and provides a host of other Internet services including global online security services, e-commerce solutions, and Internet advertising to both businesses and individuals. At the centre of the group is GMO Internet, Inc. a company listed on the prestigious first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE: 9449).

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