Comment by organsnyder

That's not how it used to be, though. It used to be that you had to prove a much higher level of ownership, even for standard, non-"enhanced" certs. There was one time we discovered that the business hadn't had its articles of incorporation renewed in the state, and the validation process by the cert issuer caught it.

I do prefer the current model (the trade-offs are worth it, IMHO), but it wasn't always this way.