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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 am delighted to inform CrowdStrike that they have just done additional, extensive, damage to their brand, and will no doubt have just emboldened those who were tempted to sue them. Your unethical behavior and abuse of the DMCA will be used to punish you. If you succeed in getting ClownStrike taken down, you will be hated even more. Have fun annihilating your brand, reputation, and customer/industry trust and goodwi…
I am delighted to inform CrowdStrike that they have just done additional, extensive, damage to their brand, and will no doubt have just emboldened those who were tempted to sue them. Your unethical behavior and abuse of the DMCA will be used to punish you. If you succeed in getting ClownStrike taken down, you will be hated even more. Have fun annihilating your brand, reputation, and customer/industry trust and goodwi…
Sometimes companies completely change their name after reputation damage. Maybe they are attacking clownstrike because they had intentions of escaping reputational damage by changing their name to clownstrike ?
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Sometimes companies completely change their name after reputation damage. Maybe they are attacking clownstrike because they had intentions of escaping reputational damage by changing their name to clownstrike ?
If clownstrike is taken, maybe they can try clownstruck?
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Sometimes companies completely change their name after reputation damage. Maybe they are attacking clownstrike because they had intentions of escaping reputational damage by changing their name to clownstrike ?
If clownstrike is taken, maybe they can try clownstruck?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes companies completely change their name after reputation damage. Maybe they are attacking clownstrike because they had intentions of escaping reputational damage by changing their name to clownstrike ?
If clownstrike is taken, maybe they can try clownstruck?
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For the record, common law generally doesn't have a solid concept of actual/legal/"real" name, if you're known by a name then it's your name. My birth cert, bank accounts, passports etc. are issued in various jurisdictions with various names. I'm not an international man of mystery or tax cheat, but I'm known by various equally legitimate names. It is a bit of a bother when someone around they must all be identical,…
That is perhaps true in some Common Law jurisdictions (US?), but not for much of the world, including some Common Law jurisdiction such as the UK and Ireland. The first name I use daily is different from what's on my passport and I've gotten into trouble with this in both the UK and Ireland.
As I mentioned, this will cause some difficulty with people and organisations who assume names are unique and immutable(c.f. [0]), but that's not a legal issue and is no different to someone not coping with any other unusual but allowable circumstance.
[0] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Streisand effect in full play. Many people even in HN might not have known this parody site before, but will now know and actively engage with it. It's a shame people running these multi hundred billion dollar industries, never seem to learn basic unintended consequences of actions in socio-economic dynamics.
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…
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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…
What would have happened if Scipio refused to provide his marriage papers? Would he have lost the domain? How could he know beforehand? 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 Ex…
As I understand it, either side can escalate to the justice system in the end.