You get a feed of what’s registered at a velocity that’s not publicly available.
In addition to that, controlling the registrar also allowed us to take advantage of features like registrar and registry locks managed by policies we had full control of. Auditing the policies of other registrars, even the supposedly secure ones, freaked us out enough to spend the money to build our own.
Thanks for the reply, and a day later at that :) You really do set a great example.
I’m still not clear though, does that feed include Whois protection, or is the real identity of each registrant available to you even if the domain was registered elsewhere?
In addition to that, controlling the registrar also allowed us to take advantage of features like registrar and registry locks managed by policies we had full control of. Auditing the policies of other registrars, even the supposedly secure ones, freaked us out enough to spend the money to build our own.