I've heard that a lot in the last hour. We'll be looking at all of our options once we get the service restored but that's priority #1.

How many hoops do you need to jump through (as a small to medium size company), to get an account at MarkMonitor, CSC or another one of those "brand protection" companies?

Over the past 5 or so years I have noticed "previously safe" registrars (in terms of resistance to false abuse/DMCA complaints or social engineering attacks) get acquired by larger corporate interests and sometimes have a drop in quality as a result. MarkMonitor was acquired by a venture capital firm a few years ago as well. Good to have backup options on the table.

(Before you ask. I am aware of the added costs of such services, and I don't have much faith in consumer registrars anymore.)

Quite shocked to see cloudflare mentioned here. Godaddy may have more sites pulled in the news, but cloudflare pulls sites too and worse.

Surely there are more abuse hardened registrars than these two.