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Looking at the SSL certificates of , and shows something odd.

For ? "Owner: This website does not supply ownership information."

For "Owner: This website does not supply ownership information."

For "Owner: Kirkby Microwave Ltd"

(see attached screen shots)

So why the %?$ don't eBay at least have their SSL certificates with their ownership in? I think the EV SSL certificate cost me $80 for a year, so hardly a fortune.

A wouldn't have thought the "ownership" carries any useful information. I presume it can be easily forged. As a colleague of mine, Stefek Zaba, used to tell everybody in the mid-late 90s, "my name is Donald Duck, and I have a digital certificate to prove it".

The only important part of a digital certificate is that it is vouched for by the chain of certificates to a trusted root certificate. If you trust the chain then you have (some) trust in the site.

Of course it isn't necessary to have a certificate that has a chain to a trusted root certificate. One system I worked on had a "self-signed" certificate, and that was completely sufficient for our purposes.

"If you think encryption will solve your problem, you don't understand encryption and you don't understand your problem".
Then s/encryption/identity/ (as the UK government has spent a lot of money finding out with its plans for digital identity certificates for all the Queens's subjects)