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Neither Zoho, or Mattermark appear to registrars at all. So I am a bit confused by your question. TierraNet (the registrar) and Zoho had a conflict/issue which

Neither Zoho, or Mattermark appear to registrars at all. So I am a bit confused by your question. TierraNet (the registrar) and Zoho had a conflict/issue which resulted in Zoho being offline for awhile. Personally for my domains I use Hover https://www.hover.com/ https://www.hover.com/. I have never had any issues with them.

preinheimer 8y ago
I could have done a better job in my question, this is the Zoho story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059792 And apparently I want "Markmonitor" not "Monitormark", who is actually a registrar: > whois ebay.com Domain Name: EBAY.COM Registry Domain ID: 1959284_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com http://www.markmonitor.com > whois amazon.com Domain Name: AMAZON.COM Registry Domain ID: 281209_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com http://www.markmonitor.com > whois nytimes.com Server Name: NYTIMES.COM IP Address: 170.149.168.134 Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc. Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com http://www.markmonitor.com
- jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
  ICANN does a pretty good job of vetting domain registrar's, it isn't that easy to become one, and there are lot of hoops to jump through. If Zoho's claims are true, then they could file a complaint with ICANN. ICANN has the power to revoke TierraNet as a registrar if they see fit.
  - preinheimer 8y ago
    Even if TierraNet loses their registrar status as a result (which seems unlikely, there's plenty of bad registrar stories out there, those companies are still around), it doesn't help Zoho now: that outage has happened. The goal with these higher end registrars is to avoid the first outage.
    - jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
      Fair enough. I did some quick diging around. Seems like the 2 biggest players in the game are markmonitor.com and corporatedomains.com I am not running a multi-million dollar site, but even if I were I am not sure I would switch from hover.com (owned by tucows.com) since they have been rock solid for me.

preinheimer 8y ago

I could have done a better job in my question, this is the Zoho story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059792 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18059792 And apparently I want "Markmonitor" not "Monitormark", who is actually a registrar: > whois ebay.com Domain Name: EBAY.COM Registry Domain ID: 1959284_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com http://www.markmonitor.com > whois amazon.com Domain Name: AMAZON.COM Registry Domain ID: 281209_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com http://www.markmonitor.com > whois nytimes.com Server Name: NYTIMES.COM IP Address: 170.149.168.134 Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc. Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com http://www.markmonitor.com

jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
ICANN does a pretty good job of vetting domain registrar's, it isn't that easy to become one, and there are lot of hoops to jump through. If Zoho's claims are true, then they could file a complaint with ICANN. ICANN has the power to revoke TierraNet as a registrar if they see fit.
- preinheimer 8y ago
  Even if TierraNet loses their registrar status as a result (which seems unlikely, there's plenty of bad registrar stories out there, those companies are still around), it doesn't help Zoho now: that outage has happened. The goal with these higher end registrars is to avoid the first outage.
  - jaxtellerSoA 8y ago
    Fair enough. I did some quick diging around. Seems like the 2 biggest players in the game are markmonitor.com and corporatedomains.com I am not running a multi-million dollar site, but even if I were I am not sure I would switch from hover.com (owned by tucows.com) since they have been rock solid for me.