Whether its a blog or a business application, you certainly need an SSL certificate to tighten the security of your application. SSL are of two categories: paid or free. The free certificates is normally a domain validated certificate, while the paid ones are either organization or extended validated certificates. There are some types that I need to document the category of certificate being used by an organization.
Below are ways I differentiate between them:
Extended validated: Instead of just a padlock preceding the address, modern browsers also displays the name of the company the domain was issued to.
Organization validated: Click to view the certificate information, if you see the displayed value for policy identifier as 2.23.140.1.2.2, then its OV 
Domain validated: Click to view the certificate information, if you see the displayed value for policy identifier as 2.23.140.1.2.1, then its DV
How do you differentiate between the different types of certificates???

Whether its a blog or a business application, you certainly need an SSL certificate to tighten the security of your application. SSL are of two categories: paid or free. The free certificates is normally a domain validated certificate, while the paid ones are either organization or extended validated certificates. There are some types that I need to document the category of certificate being used by an organization.

Below are ways I differentiate between them:

Extended validated: Instead of just a padlock preceding the address, modern browsers also displays the name of the company the domain was issued to.

Organization validated: Click to view the certificate information, if you see the displayed value for policy identifier as 2.23.140.1.2.2, then its OV 

Domain validated: Click to view the certificate information, if you see the displayed value for policy identifier as 2.23.140.1.2.1, then its DV

How do you differentiate between the different types of certificates???



How to differentiate between the three categories of SSL certificates