Government agencies, boards, associations, and schools use FreeholdIP to issue licenses, certifications, and diplomas that the holder owns and anyone can verify for free — credentials that can't be silently altered and keep working even if your systems go down.
That's the whole point. A FreeholdIP credential is checked against the signing key your organization publishes in its own DNS, read directly by whoever is verifying it, with no FreeholdIP server in the loop. The signature proves that key signed the credential. Your DNS record proves the key is yours. Whoever controls your domain is your organization, and anyone can confirm that for themselves.
Our part is narrower, and worth saying plainly: before an organization can issue here, we confirm it is the organization it says it is, and we don't open issuing to just anyone. That vetting is a gate, not the source of the trust. If FreeholdIP vanished tomorrow, every credential already issued would still verify.
We set up every issuer personally, so we can confirm you're the real organization you say you are. Here's how it works: