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by moralestapia 1378 days ago
People here stating you shouldn't use Google for domain registration you're partly right, however, what about TLDs owned by them?

I have several .app domains, so there's not really a choice there. One of those is taking off (getting lots of users/visitors) and every year they raise the price to renew it, there's nothing I can do about that as apparently they own the TLD and have the last word on it. I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in their TsS there's a clause that allows them to take the domain away from me for whatever reason.
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Ayesh 1378 days ago
Registry intervention isn't that common, unless it affects the domain name itself.

I think the two most common encounters would be UDPR cases and government take down demands. I don't think any TLD owner will bend over backwards to protect the registrant in cases like this. They will just comply and move on.

For Google, though, the worst I imagine is their TLD nameservers using their logs to rank your domains for search results.

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