alt Hacker NewsSure:
- which business is behind the website?
- when was said business incorporated?
- how many employees does this business have?
- what is the jurisdiction and canonical registration identifier of this business?
All useful info for an agent determining how much to trust the content on a website and whether to transact with it
But some organization has to check all that stuff, confirm that it's accurate, and then issue the certificate, right? So what's lost from having that organization just have a website that maps that information to domain names?