[michaelt]

According to whois, google.com, amazon.com, github.com, microsoft.com, netflix.com, reddit.com, baidu.com, youtube.com, twitch.tv and wikipedia.org all use MarkMonitor [1]

apple.com, twitter.com and ocado.com use CSC Corporate Domains [2]

I have no idea what such services charge, but they're all "call for pricing" and none of those companies would blink at spending $10k/year on their domains.

Not every well known brand uses such a service, though. bbc.com uses tucows, stackoverflow.com uses name.com and ycombinator.com uses gandi. facebook.com uses RegistrarSafe, a subsidiary of themselves, and almost every domain registrar is registered with themselves.

[1] https://markmonitor.com/ [2] https://www.cscglobal.com/global/web/csc//micro-domain-name-...

[toast0]

At my last job, we called MarkMonitor after NetworkSolutions' lack of admin security got our domain hijacked. I don't remeber the prices exactly, and I'm sure they've changed, but from what I recall, the per domain year prices were about 10x normal prices, like $100/year for .com, but they also had a mininum annual spend of I think $10k/year; to get the 'super lock' domain service was about $1000/year available on a small selection of TLDs. They were also pretty dismissive on the first call until they looked us up and you could hear the dollar signs spinning in their eyes. They were very easy to work with and professional after that though. This was while they were owned by Thompson-Reuters, they've since been sold to private equity.

[jtl999]

> and I'm sure they've changed

How recent is your experience with MarkMonitor?

[hitpointdrew]

Google.com doesn't even use Google Domains....that is telling right there.

[snazz]

Google.com was registered long before Google Domains was created. Lots of other more modern Google domains---even .google ones---are registered with MarkMonitor as well. Google Domains doesn't compete with MarkMonitor for large businesses with extremely valuable domains.

[CydeWeys]

Google Domains is not a corporate registrar. It's thus not targeted at the big corporate Google use case anyway, so that's not a surprise.

[manojlds]

Not really useful when talking about companies like Google. They also don't use Kubernetes...