SSL/TLS Certificate - InCommon Certificate Service Vendor Transition (Sectigo → CertiNext)

Incommon certificate services is transitioning from Sectigo to CertiNext.

Transition completion date: July 17, 2026

Additional information is available from InCommon:

This service issued approximately 2,000 server certificates last year via https://servercertificates.wisc.edu with InCommon's, vendor Sectigo and now to be CertiNext. 

Here is a highlight of what will remain the same, what is changing, and steps going forward:

Pricing

Continued service and support to the UW-Community at no charge.

Manual certificate issuance

Continued support via https://servercertificates.wisc.edu that will require moderate development work from our team to integrate with CertiNext’s new API.

We encourage you to automate, that said not all applications or vendors support native certificate automation and as a result, there will be increased administrative burden with industry standard shortened certificate lifespans.

ACME-issued certificates

Continued support for automated ACME issuance but requires minimal changes for existing customers (updating a single URL and credentials)

IGTF certificates

Continued support for academic grid computing

Feature Availability

  • CertiNext is expected to offer more features than the current service.
  • Some features may be offered as à la carte add-ons.
  • At this time we do not have a a complete list of features or options available.

Next Steps

Contract Review: DoIT Purchasing currently has the new agreement. They are reviewing it and comparing it to our previous agreement. We expect the agreement to be virtually identical, but we are prepared to negotiate terms if necessary.

User Communication: Our team has assembled a contact list of email addresses that have received certificates over the past year.  We will communicate important transition information to the list and maintain updates to this KB document.

Questions? servercertificates@doit.wisc.edu 


Keywords:
service migration sectigo certinext 
Doc ID:
160749
Owned by:
PHILIP J. in SSL Server Certificates
Created:
2026-04-16
Updated:
2026-04-21
Sites:
SSL Server Certificates