Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is Awkward and Awful

Re:Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is Awkward... by onetwothreefour on Friday December 28, 2012 @04:04PM (#4979527)

Cough cough http://fedgov.dnb.com/webform/pages/CCRSearch.jsp sputter sputter ahem free one business day cough do this before submitting to Apple cough D&B is basically extortion

For what it's worth, I was sent the URL above on a wink wink hush hush basis by a large EV SSL certificate issuer. We needed a cert for our non-US company, but they wanted a DUNS number. Nobody outside the US actually uses DUNS numbers (I don't care what D&B says). So yeah, that URL gives you a DUNS number for free within 1 business day, paid for by the US Government.

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Re:Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is Awkward... by mortenjorck on Saturday December 29, 2012 @01:39AM (#4981347)

The above link pitches its offer as being for companies that do business with the US government. Does your business actually have to be engaged in a government contract, or can it be on a "we might respond to an RFQ someday" basis?

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Re:Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is Awkward... by onetwothreefour on Monday December 31, 2012 @03:53PM (#4990848)

The latter. :)

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Re:Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is Awkward... by coob on Saturday December 29, 2012 @06:02AM (#4981764)

> Nobody outside the US actually uses DUNS numbers

As far as I can recall I think all UK Ltd's get a DUNs number automatically?

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Re:Apple's Company Registration for its App Store is Awkward... by onetwothreefour on Monday December 31, 2012 @05:43PM (#4991207)

That's only because D&B have to look like their existence is necessary. So they just trawl for new entries at companies house and auto-generate the entry in their DB.

They're not the only ones though.

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