The process described only works in the US. Internationally, you need to contact DNB and go through the multi-week horror. Eduardo appears to be in Brazil.
In Canada ours took several weeks. Luckily we prepared the submission ahead of time and discovered this was important, so we had one by the time we were ready for submission.
Having said that, the submission process didn't explain what a DUNs number was important for and it seemed like a weird thing to need...i share the frustration.
Interesting -- I am from Canada and AFAIK, even as a Canadian business, you can legitimately submit through the DUNS "US Government contractor" form for free.
I was stuck last year with a tight deadline for one of my enterprise apps (which needed the DUNS for me to publish) and I used this method; it cost me nothing and was complete within a few days.
Same here. I used D-U-N-S Profile Lookup[1] and entered the company's detail (Singapore company). An hour later, I received an email containing the D-U-N-S number from noreply-appledev@apple.com
I called up D&B and got my companies DUNS number over the phone right then here in New Zealand, apparently they get a feed from the companies office here and just allocate them whenever a new company is incorporated - which happens quite a lot, given how lax our company incorporation rules are.
Well now, this is odd. I don't know if it's because of the recent background check done by the US Government, or associating with the Microsoft App Store -- either of which (timing-wise) seemed to prompt Dunn & Bradstreet to call me and sell on their services -- but I started the Apple process to secure a number, and the helpfully found the number I apparently already had and emailed it to me.
I never went to D&B to get one, so... anyone know why I have one already?
I can verify that this process is accurate for US companies. I did the same thing late last year. Make sure you use Apple's form to apply for your DUNS number.
