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by antsar 3892 days ago
Regular certs are Domain Validated, meaning the CA only verified that you do, in fact, own the domain in question.

EV (Extended Validation) certificates actually require the CA to verify that you are who you claim to be. This is mostly used by banks and payment processors, as it costs more money. Most browsers will identify an EV cert by turning the URL bar green, and/or displaying the name of whoever owns the cert.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-validated_certificate
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Validation_Certificate
1 comments

Thank you!