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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…
CrowdStrike/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.
This is true [0]! But even more surprisingly clownstrike.com redirects to crowdstrike.com. I am surprised why they may have thought this is a good idea, but it means that we can actually use clownstrike.com instead to reference it in the web. [0] https://www.whois.com/whois/clownstrike.com
For example: https://www.microsoft.sucks/en-au/microsoft-365
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Don't forget that Clownstrike took down Linux systems in April.
Falcon sensor has been causing kernel panics / memory stacktraces / and insanely high load for years on Linux boxes (RHEL 7/8 mostly where I was at), not just in April.
I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came across this when googling for information on a small Biotech startup: https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010... Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.
This does bring up a question though; I've had arp242.net for a long time, and obviously that's not my actual name. Can some company register "arp242" as a trademark and hijack my domain?
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…
It’s ironic that Crowdstrike could be suffering reputational damage due to a failure mode they didn’t realize existed in the services provided by a vendor they hired to protect them from reputational damage. Maybe this will give them some empathy for their users who bought their services to protect their infrastructure.
I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came across this when googling for information on a small Biotech startup: https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010... Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.
I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came across this when googling for information on a small Biotech startup: https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010... Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.
Remindes me of someone I met a long time ago that had the Zeppelin last name, and could not use on Facebook because and agreement between Facebook and the band Led Zeppelin blocked it.
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I certainly don't want to claim everyone on Hacker News is a high powered CISO making EDR purchasing decisions for their Fortune 500 company or whatever, but I feel like there are enough people with actual influence who read this site that if I was a security company (or any tech company) I wouldn't want front page stories that make me look petty about getting rightly clowned on after a fuck-up of galactic proportion…
I mean... is THIS going to be the thing to tip you over the edge? Not last month's shenanigans, but THIS?