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amiga386 a day ago

Because they actively thwarted security.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-...

https://web.archive.org/web/20191220215533/https://stripe.ia...

> this site uses an EV certificate for "Stripe, Inc", that was legitimately issued by Comodo. However, when you hear "Stripe, Inc", you are probably thinking of the payment processor incorporated in Delaware. Here, though, you are talking to the "Stripe, Inc" incorporated in Kentucky.

There's a lot of validation that's difficult to get around in DV (Domain Validation) and in DNS generally. Unless you go to every legal jurisdiction in the world and open businesses and file and have granted trademarks, you _cannot_ guarantee that no other person will have the same visible EV identity as you.

It's up to visitors to know that apple.com is where you buy Apple stuff, while apple.net, applecart.com, 4ppl3.com, аррlе.сом, ., example.com/https://apple.com are not. But if they can manage that, they can trust apple.com more than they could any URL with an "Apple, Inc." EV certificate. When browsers show the URL bar tend to highlight the top-level domain prominently, and they reject DNS names with mixed script, to avoid scammers fooling you. It's working better than EV.