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I am cynical and jaded in this area so please take this with a grain of salt. This is just based on my experience trying out many different registrars. MarkMo

I am cynical and jaded in this area so please take this with a grain of salt. This is just based on my experience trying out many different registrars. MarkMonitor is the only registrar that comes to mind but even they have had some incidents and not likely you would just move some personal domains there. They are meant for large organizations. The rest of them in my experience either aren't a full time registrar (CF/AWS) with odd limitations that change with time or have acquired/merged registrars that have become web2.0 front-ends to old systems they acquired and can barely keep them running. I've tried many registrars in the US and EU and can not find one I have confidence in. Every registrar that has features I like also comes with either stability issues or antiquated technical debt and have lost/let-go much of their technical staff. I am not going to name these registrars because for each of them there will be at least a dozen people here that have had nothing but wonderful experiences with them. So I guess one could minimize risk by having half of their domains on their first choice and half on the second choice then make sure people know to email them at a domain on each registrar. e.g. Use the second registrar for an email domain that is set as a "backup email" in services that support having two or more email addresses. I know this does not really answer your question. I do not have a good answer.

toast0 5y ago
I moved my employers domains to MarkMonitor circa 2012 (after NetworkSolutions had an incident, and after I recovered from shock that my boss had used NetworkSolutions for anything after 1999!). They had a pretty high minimum annual spending requirement, so personal domains is out, unless you have an absurd number of them. But, MarkMonitor does offer the most important security feature, RegistryLock, if supported by the Registry. A registry lock is enforced by the registry, and if you want to make changes to the domain at all, you need to contact the registrar and let them know; then they contact the registry and the registry will contact you during your business hours to validate the request, according to your preset instructions. From what I can tell, it works; we had to wait a day to change our nameservers once cause my boss didn't answer his phone to provide the authentication. RegistryLock was a for pay feature, and not an insignificant amount.

toast0 5y ago

I moved my employers domains to MarkMonitor circa 2012 (after NetworkSolutions had an incident, and after I recovered from shock that my boss had used NetworkSolutions for anything after 1999!). They had a pretty high minimum annual spending requirement, so personal domains is out, unless you have an absurd number of them. But, MarkMonitor does offer the most important security feature, RegistryLock, if supported by the Registry. A registry lock is enforced by the registry, and if you want to make changes to the domain at all, you need to contact the registrar and let them know; then they contact the registry and the registry will contact you during your business hours to validate the request, according to your preset instructions. From what I can tell, it works; we had to wait a day to change our nameservers once cause my boss didn't answer his phone to provide the authentication. RegistryLock was a for pay feature, and not an insignificant amount.