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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.
I mean, there's now what, 2,000 TLDs and growing? I'm not sure it's going to be practical to own every likely parody domain at every TLD.
The pattern seems to reveal that CS truly has no concept of risk management whatsoever.
In finance this level of recklessness would get you banned from the industry.
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.
If you spend enough time around VC's it becomes difficult to imagine how this doesn't happen more often. Many times companies grow too quickly for a clearly seasoned veteran of the market to get a chance to take the wheel. Combine this with "nobody ever got fired for purchasing IBM" and you get a perfect storm for taking out the IT infrastructure for an entire culture—all you need is a majoritarian marketshare and you can take out an entire people.
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In this case Cloudflare, in a spasm of comprehension failure, soiled themselves further by proving unable to distinguish between a trademark complaint and a copyright complaint, and erroneously labelled the former as the latter. Irrespective of the fair use merits on display, the DMCA simply does not apply to trademark disputes.
Since this is "their core business" it's hard to believe that this material misrepresentation wasn't knowing or willful. I believe they've partially opened themselves to a counter suit on this point.
Starts with "Z". Ends in "ero".
Where’s the infringement when the name doesn’t even match?! “Crowdstrike” vs “Clownstrike”? Or is it illegal now to rhyme words? After what happened, that company should be dismantled for good.
Trademarks have always applied anything that could reasonably be confused with it. So yes, it is illegal to rhyme trademarks. But trademarks has also long since allowed for parody and other usage that doesn't harm the trademark owner. That's why it's a nonsense request, not because of the rhyming.
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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.
You don't need empathy when you have a captive market. I'm afraid we're about to enter the "lol fuck you, what're you gonna do, leave?" stage of this organization.
Sure, they're all equal shades of shitty, but that's a different issue.
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.
How would I find these other ClownStrike parody sites ?
How does CrowdStrike even have a business left to defend? Are companies still using their service?
I'm surprised their stock didn't fall further. Would think user trust is everything for this kind of company. Maybe it goes to show how numb a lot of traditional companies are to computer downtime.