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Maybe someone listened but it recently took 2 days to get an EV cert from Comodo via Namecheap. Some of that was probably due to having a registered company with a DNB Number - YMMV.

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It recently took 10 minutes to get an EV cert from CertSimple: https://twitter.com/webster/status/667022550594113536

Our average validation time is five hours.

Nobody else has our tech or does anything close. When they catch up to what we're doing now we'll be another year ahead.

Is there really much demand for that? If you want an EV cert you're going to be a big business with a lot of employees just to handle that kind of stuff. 2 days really isn't that long - getting internal signoff on the idea of using an EV cert probably takes longer than 2 days.

That seems kind of self-fulfilling. If the process is slow and bureaucratic then naturally only slow, bureaucratic organizations will get them. But maybe demand for EV certs would be greater if the process was more streamlined.

That's fast - do you require documentation validating corporate relationship?

Visit https://certsimple.com and start typing. ;)

I've recently spent two months trying to get a code signing cert from Comodo (same validation process as EV) for a completely legit real business and ultimately failed. The whole experience sucked beyond belief.

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