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Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by moralestapia »

sureglymop wrote: post #32

A similar thing has happened to me before. There is a company with the same name as my surname with a trademark for it. When I registered a domain with my surname in it, the registrar had an automatic process in place that checked for this trademark and took away access of the domain. So far so good. The problem was that the registrar and its support then ghosted me and also never refunded me for the money already pa…

Trademarks are country specific while domain names are not. Would be interesting to know what happens if they took this to trial (in which country though).

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Post by hobofan »

sureglymop wrote: post #32

A similar thing has happened to me before. There is a company with the same name as my surname with a trademark for it. When I registered a domain with my surname in it, the registrar had an automatic process in place that checked for this trademark and took away access of the domain. So far so good. The problem was that the registrar and its support then ghosted me and also never refunded me for the money already pa…

> I think one of the problems is that as more and more individual consumers buy domains

Huh, I was always under the assumption that the percentage of domains bought by individual consumers is shrinking. As in, in the early days of the internet until ~2010 where commercialization was only slowly picking up (or only concentrated to a few domains), the majority of domains were personal websites and blogs.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by pdpi »

pera wrote: post #198
klez wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly I'm not a lawyer either, but isn't accusing someone of doing something that is not true and that can have legal ramification a suable behavior in the US?

According to this no one has ever been prosecuted just for sending false DMCA takedown notices: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/51541/has-anyone-bee... They do mention a case where the defendant acted in bad faith and was found liable for damages though.

It's a good thing it's not a DMCA takedown notice, then. They reported itch.io for phishing.

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Post by terminalbraid »

breakingcups wrote: post #125
leafo wrote: post #31

I'm the one running itch.io, so here's some more context for you: From what I can tell, some person made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game. The BrandShield software is probably instructed to eradicate all "unauthorized" use of their trademark, so they sent reports independently to our host and registrar claiming there was "fraud…

Filing false reports like this should count as fraud.

I'm in the outraged crowd and there should be pretty serious consequences, but it is important in the interest of justice to differentiate between fraud, negligence, and gross incompetence.

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Post by zeeZ »

TurtleStacker wrote: post #30
paxys wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

INWX

I'm very happy with INWX, but their API is a bit lacking when it comes to limiting the potential blast radius.

It's either full access to everything or, thanks to their support for creating a special account on request, only full access to DNS management.

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Post by robin_reala »

betteryet wrote: post #178
duggan wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iwantmyname was bought out by a conglomerate, “Team Internet[1]”, a few years ago. Prices went up, service went down. I’d recommend moving your domains when you can (Porkbun have been good, though I haven’t had any incidents like this). Best of luck! 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Internet

Same thing with Gandi, which is a shame. Domain renewal price silently went up 3x or so last year after getting acquired.

In the same way that “Don’t be evil” has disappeared, Gandi’s “No bullshit!” is no longer a thing.

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Post by doublerabbit »

JimDabell wrote: post #68
paxys wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

Namecheap is definitely on my “never use under any circumstances” list for reasons I outlined in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18091287 The full thread is worth reading for more feedback on a range of registrars, particularly Namecheap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18086522 I strongly encourage people to only recommend domain registrars if they have verified that customer support won’t co…

I use namecheap too.

Apart from their UI being, huh, I've had no problems.

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Post by cipheredStones »

hresvelgr wrote: post #118
leafo wrote: post #31

I'm the one running itch.io, so here's some more context for you: From what I can tell, some person made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game. The BrandShield software is probably instructed to eradicate all "unauthorized" use of their trademark, so they sent reports independently to our host and registrar claiming there was "fraud…

It's surprising that this happened at all. Isn't it in most business's best interests to be aware of their most high-profile customers? If this was an automatic process, it's pretty disappointing that it even occurred. If I was running a SaaS, I'd probably want to mark my important accounts so an actual human has to investigate any raised alerts instead of being dealt with by a cron.

Something being in a business's best interests is very far from a guarantee that it'll happen.

I've worked on a team in a household-name big tech company where our mission was almost exactly "make sure we're not blowing up our most important customers for no reason". It's not nearly as easy as it sounds: defining who's important is hard, and defining what should and shouldn't be allowed is hard, and then implementing that all correctly and avoiding drift over time is tricky too.

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Post by trissi1996 »

tucnak wrote: post #116
trissi1996 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They hiked prices massively so I wanted to transfer away, it was a massive shitshow. Auth-codes given on the website were expired and they took 2 weeks to give me the correct ones near the end of the registry period. Support was extremely unresponsive. As this this was a side project I couldn't spent time on every day my domain went into quarantine for a short time. They answered 2 days before the end of the rental p…

Wow, I never knew that to be the case! How would I find a registrar that supports .at LTD? Cloudflare, AWS, Google—neither supports it.

From looking through https://www.nic.at/en/my-at-domain/at-partnerfinder the only one that I knew and did not hear shit about seems to be OVH.

Others might be good, but no idea who exactly, many small unknown companies in the list that could be either great or shitty.

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