If you could just change your company's domain name that'd be swell!

Surprising Google is happy to lose a paying company over this.

Although the author is taking quite the risk bypassing Google's validation like that. Not sure I'd be risking my company's workspace to do it in case Google wakes up ban hammer happy one morning.

Google would rather cheap out on offshore support than waste their engineers' time talking to real customers.

Plus, any entity large enough probably has some kind of account manager or contact in Google that could hopefully escalate to the right person.