Depends on the registrar. Globalsign required the phone number to be one publicly listed for the company in some business registry (I forget exactly which one), so it had to be someone in our main corporate office who'd deal with them on the phone.

▲

bangaladore 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For an online business in a dubious (but legal) domain, my co-owner spent a few hundred bucks registering a business in New Mexico with a registered agent to get an EV cert.

So, a barrier to entry, but not much of one.

▲

invokestatic 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I have an almost identical story except the state in question was Nevada. I’m curious what “dubious” domain it was, for me it was video game cheats. Maybe I’m actually the co-owner you’re talking about. :)

▲

dale-cooper 8 hours ago | parent [-]

This made me curious. Like selling cheats for games?

	▲	bangaladore 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, both in the case of them and I.

▲

progmetaldev 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Dun and Bradstreet (?). I believe I'm remembering this correctly. I still deal with a few financial institutions that insist on using an EV SSL certificate on their websites. I may be wrong, but I believe that having an EV SSL gives a larger insurance dollar amount should the security be compromised from the EV certificate (although I imagine it would be nearly impossible to prove).

When I last reissued an EV SSL (recently), I had to create a CNAME record to prove domain ownership, as well as provide the financial institution's CEO's information which they matched up with Dun & Bradstreet and called to confirm. The entire process took about three days to complete.

	▲	pests 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Still required for Apple Dev account last time I had to go through the process a few years ago