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Re:Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abu... by snowwrestler on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:59PM (#18060912)
I've been very happy with MarkMonitor. They have good customer service, a good reputation, and best of all, they auto-renew domains and send an invoice. That means that the failure mode is "domain is renewed, I owe them a check."

If your domains are riding on a credit card, you potentially have a failure mode of "card was declined, my domain did not renew, everything is down."

Re:Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abu... by sandGorgon on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:54PM (#18063232)
How much does markmonitor cost ? There is no pricing anywhere.
Re:Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abu... by snowwrestler on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:38AM (#18064318)
My invoices say $20/yr per .com; other TLDs are more expensive. Because we have a ton of domains we spend over $20k a year with them. I'm sure there is a minimum but I don't know what it is these days.

I would not say MarkMonitor is a tool for startups. It's a tool for organizations that would lose a lot if they lost a domain. I bet Zoho wishes they could go back in time and spend $10k to avoid this problem they had.

Re:Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abu... by chris on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:11AM (#18063760)
Back in 2014 they wanted a $10k/yr minimum.
Re:Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abu... by Karupan on Monday September 24, 2018 @10:58PM (#18063243)
I’m guessing that’s an indication that it’s prohibitively expensive for small organisations?
Re:Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abu... by barkingcat on Monday September 24, 2018 @04:07PM (#18060960)
and then someone steals the domain out from under you and you'll need to pay in bitcoins to get it back.