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Crowdstrike has several competitors, CarbonBlack, McAfee, Sophos, PaloAlto, etc. Sure, they're all equal shades of shitty, but that's a different issue.
> Sure, they're all equal shades of shitty, but that's a different issue. You can choose which digital shotgun is strapped to your organizational forehead.
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Mr. Scipio had to provide evidence, lose his privacy and justify his use of the domain name to avoid losing it. That is enough proof to conclude that this UDRP thing is deeply unfair and should not exist. "First come, first served" is much more fair than this "burden of proof falls on the defendant" nonsense. We'll have to replace ICANN with something better at some point.
UDRP is meant to address obvious, intentional, malicious domain squatting, where someone registers a domain with your trademark and then extorts you for it. I believe it serves that purpose reasonably well. There are three criteria that ALL have to be met (1. identical or confusingly similar to your trademark, 2. registrant doesn't have a legitimate reason, 3. registered/used in bad faith). In cases where these are m…
If I was in his position, I would definitely feel the implicit threat of "if you're not willing to provide all the info we're requesting, you lose your domain".
> 2. registrant doesn't have a legitimate reason, 3. registered/used in bad faith
I've read arbitration cases where "The Expert" says (simplifying): "the site is being used for illegal activities, so there's no legitimate use", when no actual court or official institution has declared that the site's content is illegal*. So, you're at the whims of some "Expert's" opinion of what's legitimate, even if it may eventually contradict the actual justice system of your country.
I have very little trust on the competence and fairness of UDRP arbitration.
* And it's not a case where the things are evidently illegal, it's very debatable if they are.
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…
Someone at CrowdStike had to say "Yes, send the takedown for this".
I base this on prior experience working at places which used CSC brand protection (among other services)
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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. 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 tak…
I think it's going to shift. Airlines in particular are probably going to decide that they can't afford to take another hit like this, and come up with a way to limit the damage if a software update (even from Microsoft) is broken, and come up with a way to test updates before pushing them to all devices.
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Mr. Scipio had to provide evidence, lose his privacy and justify his use of the domain name to avoid losing it. That is enough proof to conclude that this UDRP thing is deeply unfair and should not exist. "First come, first served" is much more fair than this "burden of proof falls on the defendant" nonsense. We'll have to replace ICANN with something better at some point.
He's worried about his privacy? He reveals all on his website https://www.christian-scipio.de/
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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
It's fairly par for the course, for big business. For example: https://www.microsoft.sucks/en-au/microsoft-365
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…
Where they may have messed up is with the use of crowdstrike's branding. I've worked for a company that had a near 100% success rate with taking over domains that used their branding. Not just taking down the site, but taking ownership of the whole 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…