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CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by bhartzer »

fxtentacle wrote: post #54
bhartzer wrote: post #37

What I don't understand is why companies and brands like this just don't use NameBlock or a similar domain blocking service like GlobalBlock. They literally can block domain names that have their company name or brand in them from being registered (up to 500 variations of their domain). It's literally like $99/year to place a block. Saves a lot of the hassle of having to deal with parody and phishing sites and trying…

This reads kind of like an advertisement. Plus it's subtly wrong. My experience with the NameBlock API is that for those $99/year, they'll allow you to automate purchasing all similar domains. But then you have to pay registration fees on all of those domains, too. It's only $10/month per typo domain that you buy, but it sums up really quickly.

You're thinking of some other service, not NameBlock or GlobalBlock. There's no automated purchasing of all similar domain names. You don't pay registration fees, as the domains that end up being blocked will never be registered by anyone (not even you).

There literally is a block on the variations, it works at the Registry level not the registrar level.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by freehorse »

cowsandmilk wrote: post #46
fxtentacle wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh wow, they sued someone who used his last name as a domain name because they feel like their trademark should allow them to prohibit him from using his family name ... And obviously they registered their trademark after he started using his name.

> And obviously they registered their trademark after he started using his name. Actually, the company’s trademarks are from 2017 and he got his name via marriage in 2020. Still a stupid suit

Yes, but they registered it in 2022, which makes the case even more hopeless.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by aragonite »

cj wrote: post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

Reminds me of that time when Mike Bloomberg's lawyers preemptively registered 400 .nyc domains for him, apparently without his knowledge, many of which are hilariously negative (MikeIsTooShort.nyc, MikeBloombergIsADweeb.nyc, GetALifeMike.nyc etc.):

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-bloomberg-nyc-domain-...

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by jjguy »

cj wrote: post #33

FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…

Based on how well CrowdStrike has managed their response to date, this is a plausible scenario.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by bhartzer »

cortesoft wrote: post #48
bhartzer wrote: post #37

What I don't understand is why companies and brands like this just don't use NameBlock or a similar domain blocking service like GlobalBlock. They literally can block domain names that have their company name or brand in them from being registered (up to 500 variations of their domain). It's literally like $99/year to place a block. Saves a lot of the hassle of having to deal with parody and phishing sites and trying…

I don't think you could block "clown" or "strike".

Yes, they could place a domain block on "crowdstrike", and variations of that would be blocked, such as cr0wdstrike, crowdstr1ke, etc.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by SXX »

actionfromafar wrote: post #19
mmaunder wrote: post #15

This is why you want to remove as many intermediaries between your content and your audience as possible. Ideal scenario is your own ASN and a pipe with a commit and your own physical box. The only takedown target is your upstream bandwidth provider. From there you’re adding takedown targets: hosting provider, edge cache/firewall provider, commercial CMS, etc. So pick your middle ground carefully. I’d suggest that ch…

Next up - Cloudstrike.com?

AirStrike.com - considering downtime of so many airlines.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by zitterbewegung »

eftychis wrote: post #36
MarkusQ wrote: post #31

CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking sites down, I'll give them that.

I guess this site is using Linux or BSD and they had to venture outside their usual modus operandi to DMCA... /s

Or a Mac. Also, I think kernel module like systems on macOS (ktext) got eliminated from current versions.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by throwup238 »

eftychis wrote: post #36
MarkusQ wrote: post #31

CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking sites down, I'll give them that.

I guess this site is using Linux or BSD and they had to venture outside their usual modus operandi to DMCA... /s

Did they try to misformat the DMCA take down notice in the hope that it takes down Cloduflare's parser? That sounds like something they would do.

Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

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Post by Subsentient »

I am delighted to inform CrowdStrike that they have just done additional, extensive, damage to their brand, and will no doubt have just emboldened those who were tempted to sue them.

Your unethical behavior and abuse of the DMCA will be used to punish you. If you succeed in getting ClownStrike taken down, you will be hated even more.

Have fun annihilating your brand, reputation, and customer/industry trust and goodwill.

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