Who is MarkMonitor?
MarkMonitor is a corporate domain registrar: it manages the domains of large companies, many of them in the Fortune 500, rather than selling to the public. It has been ICANN-accredited since 1999. Clarivate sold it to Newfold Digital in November 2022, and Newfold sold it to the corporate registrar Com Laude on 31 December 2025.
- What it is
- Domain registrar, DNS provider
- Operated by
- MarkMonitor Inc.
- Part of
- Com Laude (owned by PX3 Partners), since December 2025
- ICANN accreditation
- Yes, since 1999, IANA ID 292
- Website
- markmonitor.com
Who owns MarkMonitor?
Com Laude, a corporate registrar owned by the London private equity firm PX3 Partners. It bought MarkMonitor from Newfold Digital, which had bought it from Clarivate for about US$302.5 million in 2022.
Why do famous brands use MarkMonitor?
It specialises in managing the domain portfolios of large companies, about 2,000 clients at the time of the 2022 sale, so the domains of many well-known brands are registered there and use its nameservers.
MarkMonitor in axath Analytics
Analytics reads the zone files of more than 350 extensions every day and shows which providers gain and lose names, including MarkMonitor.
Open AnalyticsSources
- Newfold Digital: completes acquisition of MarkMonitor (2022)
- Newfold Digital: completes sale of Markmonitor to Com Laude (2025)
- IANA: Registrar IDs (ICANN-accredited registrars)
Last reviewed October 9, 2026.