Apply for a DUNS number? Nah.

DUNS num­bers (Duns and Brad­street) are needed for a few things business-related but you run your own busi­ness you’ve prob­a­bly never got around to apply­ing for one.

If you’ve reg­is­tered a com­pany in Aus­tralia, chances are you’ve already got a DUNS num­ber. Sur­pris­ing, huh?

Search for your busi­ness and a DUNS num­ber will be avail­able top left, just above the com­pany name or ABN.

DUNS search

I dis­cov­ered this while try­ing to reg­is­ter for Apple’s iOS Enter­prise pro­gram, which requires a DUNS num­ber as part of the appli­ca­tion process. You can sign up for the devel­oper pro­gram with­out one (and it’s cheaper), but to pri­vately man­age and dis­trib­ute apps you need enter­prise access.

As we pre­pare to launch our Equip Mobile pro­gram into schools, the abil­ity to roll out soft­ware to all users in an organ­i­sa­tion is some­thing we need to be across!

Equip iOS Screenshot

posted on Monday, May 23rd, 2011 at 12:38 pm by Josh Street, filed under General.

2 Responses to “Apply for a DUNS number? Nah.”

  1. josh says:

    DUNS is a scam do not pay for the $299 ser­vice if you are just an app devel­oper.
    I was told by buy­ing it that my prob­lems with apple not accept­ing my duns num­ber would all be resolved, even though you dont need to pay to get it. I paid the Fee and it got me no were.

    Got into the android store in 10min, apples rela­tion­ship with D&B is questionable.

    FIX THIS

  2. Ahmed Abdellatif says:

    Do you know that D&B charges Egypt­ian com­pa­nies for $500 and GCC com­pa­nies for $250 with­out the free option for this DUNS num­ber ?!!
    What kind of scam is this ?!

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