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The irony of your comment thinking the EU is going to fight this.

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.

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Yeah, it's surprising how badly the EU as a government has fumbled the crucial job of business identification by outsourcing it to an American company.

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?

It's really shocking to me that the EU would demand people use a US corporation for something that really needs to be done by national governments. I think the corruption might be on our end in this case, time to write my MEP or whatever.

Which EU-based government(s), though? The implication I get is that is under your proposal, the dev(s) would have to register with almost every EU countries out there.

Well no, the store/Google/Apple would need to support entering compatible data with all systems, like with addresses or phone numbers and doing any integration to verify data if need be.

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.

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