Well, if you don't protect your trademark? It was how most people at M$ were referring to them last week. edit: OMG, I thought it would be obvious I'm kidding. I guess garbage HN comments win garbage HN prizes. Maybe there will be a supreme court ruling that George Kurtz has to wear a clown nose due to the Krusty precedent?
CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
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#12CrowdStrike/CSC has owned at least clownstrike.com and clownstrike.net since 2012, but they weren't on the ball with those new TLDs it seems.
I wonder what other parody names and altered versions they own…
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#14that's really pathetic. they should own up to the mistake
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#15I’d suggest that choosing a commercial CMS makes you an easy target. Apparently so does choosing Cloudflare.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#16See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#17See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#18CrowdStrike/CSC has owned at least clownstrike.com and clownstrike.net since 2012, but they weren't on the ball with those new TLDs it seems.
It’s quite surprising to me that they thought to do that, although maybe I’m just naive. I wonder what other parody names and altered versions they own…
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#19This 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…
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#20Surely those resources could be better spent on functional Uber Eats gift cards.