They’re not. Some buy a Verified Mark Certificate (e.g. ikea.{com, ca, fr, maybe others} do), but most won’t ever (e.g. the first one on https://bimi-explorer.svg.zone/bimi/list.html 026430010.co.il, and a slightly random other dailydot.com). Also the two Mark Verifying Authorities listed at https://bimigroup.org/implementation-guide/ currently talk about approximately $1,300 and $1,600 per year, less than the $2,000 you say though recurring.
Feature suggestion: a "my location" button on the map, so you can zoom in to your current location. There is a browser API [1] for this (which asks permission, or you can do it based on the IP address [2]
The root cause for the PHP vulnerability is trying to parse unstructured text. The actual information in WHOIS has structure: emails, addresses, dates, etc. This info should be provided in a structured format, which is what RDAP defines.
IMHO, there is no reason for a registrar to not support RDAP, and to have the RDAP server's address registered with ICANN.
I think this points to the real problem: it is hard to evaluate how "good" someone is during the hiring process
Lots of great coders don't have a big open presence. Years of experience isn't a good sign with the churn in tech, plus you don't know if they wrote code or just watched. Is being able to do a l33t coding exercise in a fixed time a sign? IMHO I'm decent programmer and I've failed them. Can you come up with an exercise that matches the work that will be done and can be completed in a reasonable amount of time?
And the phrase "matches the work that will be done" is doing some heavy lifting: many companies don't really know what they need. I've seen companies that need 99% soft skills that want a ton of niche tech experience. Or advertise for something other than the real dumpster-fire that you'll have to work on.
This is the fundamental reason that knowing someone works: they know your coding skills and they can give you the inside scoop on the position.
I made feed.style[1] to help people add a decent XSLT stylesheet to their feed.
I'm using it myself[2] and really like the effect.
I think it always makes sense to have a stylesheet (and use text/xml content type): otherwise people clicking a rss/atom link are greeted with a wall of xml (or a download prompt). Hard to think of a worse UI for people who aren't familiar with feeds & feed readers.
[1] https://github.com/regexplanet/regexplanet-bun/blob/main/Doc...