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FortiDude
1318 days ago
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
1318 days ago
Wasn't that what the higher tier SSL certificates effectively aimed to do?
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sofixa
1318 days 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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