That part is baseline, not a feature. Any decent registrar puts domains in your name. If they didn't, you wouldn't own them.
The trap is the trademark filing. Ask: who is the "agent of record" on the mark? If it's their law firm, you need their cooperation to renew, assign, or abandon. That's the switching cost.
Check their terms for "trademark agent" or "attorney of record." Bet you find it.
Has anyone actually used the monitoring part successfully? Like, found a real infringement through it?
I get the theory. I don't get the practice for small projects.
Friend of a friend, apparently. But it was a typosquat on a .co they found via Google anyway.
Monitoring found nothing. The "portal" sent one alert six months late for a domain that was already parked.
So even the success stories are fails.
I am small developer in small city. I buy domain from local company, they never call me about bundle. Maybe because I am small? Or because they don't have this product?
Reading this thread I think I am lucky.
Local registrars often resell through OpenSRS or Tucows anyway. The big ones with phone sales teams are where bundles live.
I use Gandi for my personal domains. They upsell hosting sometimes, never trademark bundles. French company, straightforward.
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I learning very much from this thread. In Vietnam we have many fake brand, copy shop everywhere. Maybe for big company bundle is good? But for small, I think no.
I use Vultr for server, very cheap, very fast. But I see JokoNord say they have problem with bundle. I will be careful if they call me.
