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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by redbell on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:40AM (#43714082)
> The whole point of paying for MarkMonitor is that they're an expensive service for valuable domains

A while ago and, out of curiosity, I did a Whois Lookup to see what big tech companies are using as their domain registrar and found that Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Netflix and Shopify are all using MarkMonitor. On the other hand Apple uses "Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE", Meta (and its children) uses RegistrarSafe and Nvidia uses SafeNames.

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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by taspeotis on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:44AM (#43714382)
> COM LAUDE

Someone had fun with that one.

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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by jenny91 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:00AM (#43715532)
RegistrarSafe is a registrar spun up by Meta for precisely the purpose of guarding their own domains and isn't open to external customers.
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by conradev on Thursday April 17, 2025 @12:18PM (#43718968)
Many of those also run their own gTLDs, too: .apple, .google, etc
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by snowwrestler on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:53PM (#43720161)
That’s interesting, Apple used to use CSC, which is the “other” big corporate registrar, competitor to MarkMonitor.
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