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I'm looking into buying an SSL certificate for my domain. I'm considering buying: https://www.ssl.nu/en/products/regular+ssl/ssl+basic/ which is just a domain validation certificate I think. Will there be a 'green lock' in the addressbar when using the certificate?

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When looking at Google or Mozilla Developer Network I see they don't use an EV certificate. Are those certificates also only domain validated domains?

P.S. I've asked a related question some time ago, but that was more a question of invalid certificate warnings on the client side and doesn't answer this question.

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To be clear the screenshot of the green lock is displayed in Chrome browser.

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could you be more specific about this 'green lock'. I think that's only in google chrome: firefox and other browsers have no 'green lock'. – Christofian Jan 23 at 22:21
@Christofian sure I could be more specific. IE (only tested in 9) also has some sort of the same feature (a lock in the addressbar). Not sure about what FF does, but I suspect it does something like that too. – RepWhoringPeeHaa Jan 23 at 22:48
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You can get a Green Lock by normal SSL (in Chrome, as your picture)

you probobly won't get a Greeb Bar from a normal SSL

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Definitively not a green bar. That's only for EV certificates. – RepWhoringPeeHaa Jan 24 at 15:38
because OP only say simple cheap ssl, who knows the EV might become cheaper one day or even free from some issuer, lets hope so – Eric Yin Jan 24 at 15:42
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who knows the EV might become cheaper one day Wishful thinking :P It's way too easy to make money this way for them :-) – RepWhoringPeeHaa Jan 24 at 16:22
In which color the lock is displayed, and if it is displayed at all, depends entirely on the browser. The interesting part for the user is, if there is a visible difference between the certificates, and this often is displayed with the colors green or blue (the bar, yes). – martinstoeckli Jan 24 at 20:25
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Normally the cheaper SSL certificates don't get you a green lock/bar, instead the browser will show a blue one (Firefox will highlight the domain in this color).

They are technically the same (the connection is encrypted), but they are cheaper, because they only have to check the domain. The "green" certificates also require information about the owner and the seller sould check, if this information is correct.

In most cases the cheaper certificate is fine, the user will have no disadvantages and the "green" certificates are really (too) expensive.

Here you can find an example with the "blue" certificate from google: https://accounts.google.com/

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When I go to the example URL with the "blue" certificate it still shows up green just like the screenshot in my question (Chrome 18). – RepWhoringPeeHaa Jan 24 at 20:17
@PeeHaa - I cannot test it with Chrome at the moment, it's possible that you get a green bar. Every browser (and every version of browser) can decide for itself, how to display the different certificates. Firefox and IE will show the URL above as blue, but Firefox for example has no lock anymore (there was one in earlier versions though). – martinstoeckli Jan 24 at 20:33
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