Further info: ask anyone you know who's got an EV cert from a traditional provider: it's a slow, painful process. CAs typically quote 7-10 days. I waited a month for GoDaddy earlier this year, and many others have too.
CertSimple starts checking your details while you fill in the form, and flags a wide variety of issues before you pay us. Our average validation time is 5 hours.
During validation, we provide very, very specific instructions based on a number of aspects of your order and your company. People with .io domains and Swedes really like us. As do in many other situations where the EV process typically shows down.
We update in realtime during the validation, and the certs downloads automatically.
We're about to replace the graph with the wall of Twitter customers from our front page, so let me know what you think of that!