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by My1 2474 days ago
Also ov/ev isn't something a person can get. I mean it might already help for some personal sites if they can be tied to other pseudonyms the user has online so for example sites of more or less well known open source software could get a link to the github or whatever into the cert to directly bind the dev of that software to his website, without having to know who is behind that.

The identity problem is always fun. I mean i don't care who someone is in real life, i only wanna know whether i have the site by the same individual who made something else.

That can be easily and automatically verified (see keybase) and might be more than enough for a lot of things where there are only normal people involved.

It might also be helpful of a given company is more commonly known behind another online entity. Like for example if pewdiepie had a company which he uses for what he does, the link to his yt would be a much greater indicator of validity than some random company name or even his own real name (which not everyone may know).

For pure DVs i think they should be able to issue them themselves. I mean the only thing those prove is domain control and with dnssec+tlsa there's a great way that domain owners can prove that they are in control of the domain and aurhorize a cert, also this lowers the number of trust paths significantly as there is only one possibly trust path over the TLD, and not like 150 CAs from who knows where. Also both the domain owners and the users have less entities they have to trust, as the TLD managers have to be trusted anyway as they ultimately have the full control of their domains,and thereby could make a DV cert themselves over the CAs anyway.