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

[coob]

> 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?

[onetwothreefour → coob]

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.