The http://s-cats.com is only something that redirects to my Norton Music website, https://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/cats.html
It seems foolish to me to spend money putting the money on the S site when it immediately switches to a site with the https
So the site is https, but the pointer to the site is not.
As long as you don't have the add-on “https everywhere” on your browser, you will never notice it.
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Funny story. When getting the pesky little S, and wanting to register the S to my business site, my webhost put the application to a German company that authorizes and either approves or disapproves it. They are the ultimate authority, and if you get their approval, every anti-viral or browser extension will not reject your certificate.
After my application was sent ... ...
They rejected it saying that Norton Music isn't a real business.
I referred them to my website where you can buy things, and it also seamlessly links to a secure, well established shopping cart site. Didn't work.
Tried proving I have a Visa/MasterCard merchant's account. Zip
Gave them a link to my Authorization.net account where they authorize Visa/MC cards online. Nada.
So I sent them a picture of my Florida state sales tax license, plus my EIN number for federal income tax (Employer Identification Number). No dice.
I sent copies of sales invoices when I sold my Band-in-a-Box aftermarket software to customers in the 1990s. No good.
Next, I sent a copy of a voided check to my business banking account. Didn't work.
About a week later, and probably over 30 hours total hold time (with lousy on-hold music and constant “your call is important” interruptions) and another few hours actually talking to a human, I'm at my wits' end.
I'm asking to speak to a supervisor – and another – and another. With their thick German accents, I'm having trouble and asking them to repeat a lot, and I'm getting more and more frustrated. I have a lot of other work to do, and it seems like my life is now a futile attempt to get that all essential S at the end of my http.
Finally, I get to a guy who says, OK I did a Google search, and your site came up, so that proves you are a legitimate business.
Website - no
Shopping cart - no
Visa/Mc merchant's account - no
Authorize.net account - no
Florida Merchant's sales tax account - no
EIN number for the USA IRS - no
Sales invoices dating from the 1990s to the present - no
Business checking account - no
Google search - YES!!!
Go figure.
I spent hundreds of dollars plus 10 dollars a month to get this "business” S because the lesser priced ones are sometimes rejected as unsafe by those with the strictest protection on their browsers and/or anti-malware apps. All the "no“ answers above take a piece of the money I earn for every sale I make. But the FREE google search finally means I'm really in business.
Sometimes the world doesn't make sense.
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