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Looks like the certificate is incorrect. You are right to stay away until it is fixed. At the very least shows a serious lack of basic security/testing. Might also be a site that's basically dead but in that case they shouldn't list it with the other sites.
When you click on member login, the page switches to https ie the encrypted version of http. For that to work, you (the user) need to be able to trust the other side of the conversation. (The other end can decrypt the ensuing conversation and if it is untrusted then the encryption is useless since the conversation is not really secure.) So the server identifies itself by presenting a "certificate" (mathematically) signed by some other entity you, or rather your browser, trusts. (Browsers come pre-packaged with some trusted certificate authorities that serve as the root of this trust chain.) The identity presented by the certificate has to match the identity of the domain you are visiting. In this case, the certificate identifies itself as for "*.vacares.com" whereas you are visiting chelcifox.com.
Thats the root cause of the problem and since this is a problem on the server side, will fail for every browser that actually checks this.
May be the webmaster will see this thread and fix it.
This could be a simple configuration error though. The domain looks like it is hosted somewhere else but the name servers (ie the ones that let our browsers talk to the appropriate server by resolving the domain name to ip address) for the chelcifox.com domain are ns1.vacares.com and ns2.vacares.com. Thats from the same vacares.com domain. So maybe these are some old/default certificates that someone forgot to change. The domain itself is listed to Fabulous Cash.
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11-30-17 01:21pm
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