Transport Layer Security, and has nothing to do with Identity. Take for example the perfectly valid certificate that was issued for npmjs[.]help which unquestionably does not belong to Microsoft/GitHub. Hell, even the certificate for npmjs.com is 'O=Google Trust Services' which doesn't sound like any of the business entities one would expect to own that cert
Transport Layer Security, and has nothing to do with Identity. Take for example the perfectly valid certificate that was issued for npmjs[.]help which unquestionably does not belong to Microsoft/GitHub. Hell, even the certificate for npmjs.com is 'O=Google Trust Services' which doesn't sound like any of the business entities one would expect to own that cert
"Whoever was on the cacert list that ships with your browser" has signed "I claim to be Acme Widgets Inc. and I own microsoft.com".