CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking sites down, I'll give them that.
CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's "protecting your trademark from genuine copyright infringement" [nods], and "trying to silence legal parody via weak trademark arguments" [shakes head].
> There's "protecting your trademark from genuine copyright infringement" You mean "genuine trademark infringement".
Touché, thank you!
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#33FWIW: 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 behalf of companies... that seems off brand for them.
(After writing the above) turns out CSC has a Online Brand Protection service. https://www.cscdbs.com/en/brand-protection/ I wouldn't be surprised if:
1) Crowdstrike incident takes down internet
2) Crowdstrike files a claim on their cyber insurance policy which includes coverage for brand protection
3) Crowdstrike (or their insurance company) buys some brand protection service, like the one offered by CSC
4) This guy receives a takedown
When I started writing this comment I was intending to defend CSC. But after googling I think CSC's brand protection services are to blame. Seems to be having the opposite effect for Crowdstrike considering they paid to have their brand "protected" and now this guy's site is getting lots of traffic!
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
CSCs whole deal is securing domain names for huge brands, they probably have people whose job involves thinking of derogatory domains like that so they can grab them pre-emptively. The people behind the .sucks TLD turned that into an incredible grift, they charge an exorbitant amount (about $300 a year) because they know every big brand will buy brand.sucks no matter what.
I worked for a company where MarkMonitor proactively registered domains for us which were likely typos of our brand (e.g. example.com -> examlpe.com, exmaple.com, etc), and would hunt down registrations of new domains which appeared likely to be phishing sites. They didn't catch everything, but they were pretty good.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#35Judging by the amount of upvotes this post has received, I believe CrowdStrike has made a major PR mistake.
Who cares if it doesn't hurt revenue?
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#36CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking sites down, I'll give them that.
I guess this site is using Linux or BSD and they had to venture outside their usual modus operandi to DMCA... /s
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#37What 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 to take them down.
Just block the domain(s) from being registered in the first place.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#38Crowdstrike is evil !
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#39What 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…
You'd be surprised. I recently parked some big name domains ending in various common TLDs in the world of government contracting. They did utilize some sort of parking or service to do it for them, but certainly not enough.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#40This 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…
Cloudflare only stands up to bullies when the CEO feels personally attacked.