&gt; No you are wrong. Perhaps it&#x27;s not the case everywhere. But like I said, from personal experience I know that certain types of domains are checked. I tried and failed to register a certificate for a phising domain that masqueraded as a banking website.<p>I never said it&#x27;s the case everywhere. I said it&#x27;s easy to register an SSL certificate for basically any domain you actually own, which is true. Basic SSL certificates are not designed to provide extended validation (there is EV certificates for that), they are designed to identify that domain.