- Organization (O): If your company or department has an &, @, or any other symbol using the shift key in its name, you must spell out the symbol or omit it to enroll, for example: XY & Z Corporation would be XYZ Corportation or XY and Z Corportation.

- Organizational Unit (OU): This field is the name of the department or organization unit making the request.

- Locality or City (L): The Locality field is the city or town name, for example: Berkeley.

- State or Province (S): Spell out the state completely; do not abbreviate the state or province name, for example: California.

- Country Name (C): Use the two-letter code without punctuation for country, for example: US or CA.

- Common Name (CN): The Common Name is the Host + Domain Name.

NOTE: RapidSSL certificates can only be used on Web servers using the Common Name specified during enrollment. For example, a certificate for the domain "domain.com" will receive a warning if accessing a site named www.domain.com or "secure.domain.com", because "www.domain.com" and "secure.domain.com" are different from "domain.com".