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FortiDude
3y ago
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I'm not saying that you need to be a company to have your own domain. I'm saying that if your domain represents a company there should be some way to automatically check that against a database of registered businesses
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marcinzm
3y ago
Wasn't that what the higher tier SSL certificates effectively aimed to do?
sofixa
3y ago
Yes, EV(Extended Validation) was for that, the certificate authority had to verify you're a legitimate business with that name. However it didn't really work well:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-...
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