you can get a free cert from ZeroSSL for an IP address

https://help.zerossl.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060119973-Is-I...

don't you also have the "Grundbuch" (title register) in Germany, like we do here in Austria?

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okay, I looked it up. you have, but it's not fully public like ours. Yeez that's messed up!

"Yeez that's messed up!"

Yes it is. You can request information, but I was told "wanting to buy" is explicitely excluded as a valid reason. (The usual solution is knowing someone inside the office, or paying someone who knows)

In the comments it's mentioned, that the IDs contain a shard key for faster lookups.

https://dev.to/stripe/designing-apis-for-humans-object-ids-3...