VMC Installation

Mar 24, 2025

Installing Verified Marked Certificate

This guide will help you install your Verified Mark Certificate or VMC. Before you install your VMC, please make sure that your domain has DMARC, DKIM and SPF record setup.

Prerequisite:

• How to set DKIM, SPF, and DMARC

Once you have received your VMC Certificate from us in PEM format via email, we request you to perform following actions: 

What you need? 

• SVG File that you submitted to us and is referenced in your BIMI Record. 

• PEM Encoded Chain file on Notepad. Please see this article: PEM Encoded Certificate Chain Support Article  

You then need to update your BIMI Record with the details of these VMC files.

1. Securely copy paste the URL of the files that you have placed on your server.  

   You can use BIMI Generator to generate BIMI Record.  

   For this to work, enter your domain, and then enter the public facing https URL of SVG file. Similarly enter the public facing https URL of the VMC Certificate file.Click on Generate BIMI Record. This will give us the BIMI Record text entries. You need to now Update your DNS Entries.  

2. In your BIMI Record you need to paste the URLs into following locations. ​​​​​​
   
   I = URL of SVG file. 
   a = URL of PEM file.

3. Below is the example of a TXT DNS Entry that needs to contain your two URLs. Once updated, your BIMI record would look like this:
   
   
     
   v=BIMI1; I=https://www.globalsign.com/globalsign.svg;
   a=https://www.globalsign.com/globalsign_vmc.pem 

Note: In case you opted for optional hosting, you will get the above URLs from us, which you need to place on your DNS Entries as shown above.  

For any other Queries please contact support team via https://www.globalsign.com/en/company/contact