What is the difference between a certificate and a certificate for a domain?

Question

Domain name market

There is a certain example.com domain and the domain administrator has the appropriate certificate and certificate for this domain. Just what is the difference between them? Why is it impossible, for example, in which case, to provide only a certificate or only a certificate for a domain?

Answer 1

There is no difference: in both cases it is a useless piece of paper without any legal force. Confirmation of the rights to the domain is only an entry in the registry of the domain zone. The owner can change at any moment, so all the pieces of paper ( both the certificate and the certificate for the domain ) certify ownership only for the moment of issuing this piece of paper.

Answer 2

I disagree with the answer above. It is not necessary to interfere with relevance and usefulness in one heap. A passport can also turn out to be irrelevant at any time - lost, for example, and get into the register of canceled passports with a great delay. If it comes to that, a lot of certificates (or all?) reflect the reality only at the time of issue or for a short period of time.
On the example of the registrar Reg.ru, which has two types of "papers" (maybe even he means it?), And which he saw live, though the domain was not issued to an individual.
1) The domain ownership certificate is a really useless piece of paper on the wall, purely for showing off and satisfying the CSF. In the first month after registering a domain, Reg.ru gives it free of charge.
2)A domain name registration certificate is already a certificate-document, with a seal and a signature, suitable for some kind of "supervision" or specialized services/companies that need to prove ownership of the domain. But when ordering, it is necessary to emphasize that the certificate requires full and Russian-language data about the owner/organization, and not the translation of Vladimir Putin, LLC Kremlin from Whois data.
For example, cellular operators are satisfied with such a certificate. That the owner can change immediately after providing the certificate is another matter. The main thing is that there are real cases with the benefit of "domain reference".