I run https://certsimple.com. We only do EV certificates, and we do it much faster than any of the existing companies, which normally quote 7-10 days to complete the validation process. I waited around a month for GoDaddy earlier this year, which is how I ended up making CertSimple.
CertSimple do EV certificates in an average of 5 hours.
- We check the customers info against the required government information sources (as well as a number of other places) before customers pay us.
- After we take the order, we provide a specific set of instructions based on a number of characteristics of the customer's actual business to make the validation process as fast as possible.
- We have a real focus on UX: there's no software to install or command line questions, our validation UI updates live, and we manually follow up with every customer to iterate our product.
I'm mike@certsimple.com, or @mikemaccana on Twitter.
They are generally good. There was one case when they started pulling a Comodo thing on us - the lawyer's signature was unintelligible, go and redo the paper - for some secondary document. But each email includes a note to email their support head if something's off, which is what we did and he had the cert issued in an hour after that. So the tops do care about their service levels and there's an easy way to escalate issues.
