Uh huh, Google just blatantly requiring every app developer on the planet to register with some specific random company. Absolutely no corruption to see here, none at all.
This is the kind of shit why smartphone vendors can't be trusted with their own walled garden stores, the EU has not yet stomped them into mulch hard enough yet I see.
The DUNS number is the European Commission standard for business identification; the choice of D&B isn’t random, it literally came from EU requirements.
And we keep wondering about why there are so few world changing companies coming out of Europe. Maybe they could start with one that handles business identification?
Each dev would only be in the registry of their own country, as they already need to be for tax related reasons anyway. I'm not sure why we need duplicated databases.
This is literally the result of EU "stomping"
(“dishonest or illegal behaviour”, “the abuse of power or authority for personal gain or benefit”)