Looking at another kind of account, the cash account, I feel my shares are safely mine.
This feeling is because in a couple of stocks, my personal information has shown up on the NOBO list. My shares belong to me, not the broker in street name.
So, if you have a cash account, and you have allowed yourself to appear on NOBO lists, your shares are as close to cert-ed as they need to be.
Cert your shares if you want to. In my situation, I do not cert.
If anyone has information to refute the above, please post it.
All I know is what I see happening in my account.
Step aside son, you're blockin' the MOMO!
Disproving absence of evidence should be easy, show the evidence of.