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Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by travisgriggs »

kaoD wrote: post #155
spondyl wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh damn, I didn't know this! I've used their services for ages and even got to briefly meet the founders once in Wellington who gave a talk on Erlang. Ah well, while it sucks that the good times may be over, I'm glad the founders got their exit :)

> I'm glad the founders got their exit I'm not. I mean, I am happy for them but this concept of growing a business to an exit is not going well for society as a whole (at least the exits that are in my areas of interest, so I assume it extrapolates to all exits). Every single business that gets bought out gets instantly enshittified in one way or another, always to the detriment of the customer. Depending on how entr…

Bonus points for using “enshittified”.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by JosefAlbers »

leafo wrote: post #31

I'm the one running itch.io, so here's some more context for you: From what I can tell, some person made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game. The BrandShield software is probably instructed to eradicate all "unauthorized" use of their trademark, so they sent reports independently to our host and registrar claiming there was "fraud…

It's working again now.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by itscrush »

paxys wrote: post #5
bpye wrote: post #4

The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

Namecheap's been out a while, I'd drop them from your list too. Porkbun's in for now.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by nucleardog »

teitoklien wrote: post #24
paxys wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

Route 53 is outrageously expensive for domains, one should only use it, if they need AWS’s DNS product.

For .com as of Aug 2024, Verisign says they charge $10.26 wholesale, and ICAANN charges $0.18/domain for a total of $10.46/yr wholesale.

Route53's .com is $14/yr. So the three year price is $42.

Three year prices from a few registrars (there's so many pricing games the "per year" price is nonsense in most cases):

    Cloudflare: $31.32 (-0.06)
    GoDaddy: $46.93 (+15.55)
    Namecheap: $41.24 (+9.86)
    Namesilo: $51.87 (+20.49)
    Porkbun: $29.61 (-1.77)
    Route53: $42 (+10.46)
    Spaceship: $28.98 (-2.40)
All diffs given against the $31.38/3yr wholesale price from Verisign+ICAAN.

Not sure how that qualifies as "outrageously expensive".

You can make your own trade-offs, but for something that's literally the foundation of my online identity, business, etc I'm willing to pay $3.50/yr over wholesale for a company with a reputation, support, and generally aligned incentives.

You may choose to instead tie your online identity and business to someone charging less than cost to save half the price of a big mac a year. But I will find it hard to dig up much sympathy when we all find out _how_ they're planning to make money doing that.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by f33d5173 »

paxys wrote: post #5
bpye wrote: post #4

The registrar in question is iwantmyname, so I guess you can add them to your "do not use" list.

I feel like it's better to have a "do use" list for something as important as a domain name registrar. - Namecheap - Cloudflare - Route 53 (if on AWS) Any others?

The upper two have had several known issues with them. I haven't heard anything about the latter one, but that doesn't mean they're free of issues.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by joseda-hg »

vasco wrote: post #295
leafo wrote: post #31

I'm the one running itch.io, so here's some more context for you: From what I can tell, some person made a fan page for an existing Funko Pop video game (Funko Fusion), with links to the official site and screenshots of the game. The BrandShield software is probably instructed to eradicate all "unauthorized" use of their trademark, so they sent reports independently to our host and registrar claiming there was "fraud…

Hope you have money to fight them. I stuck to my guns on a wrongful one like this and while Digitalocean and Cloudflare both had my backs (surprisingly before I even asked, both of them got a lot of good will on that - they informed me they already checked and it was spurious!). Google didn't have my back though and immediately caved when they upgraded their sham copyright infringement claim to money laundering and f…

If they are fully static couldn't they probably be run at close to 0 cost from you?

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by rsynnott »

mrdoe wrote: post #192

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I mean, with Bluesky you can see the replies; with Twitter if you're not logged in you either get _just_ the post, or you get an error message, depending on phase of the moon. For this sort of thing, Bluesky's clearly more user-friendly.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by vasco »

joseda-hg wrote: post #337
vasco wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hope you have money to fight them. I stuck to my guns on a wrongful one like this and while Digitalocean and Cloudflare both had my backs (surprisingly before I even asked, both of them got a lot of good will on that - they informed me they already checked and it was spurious!). Google didn't have my back though and immediately caved when they upgraded their sham copyright infringement claim to money laundering and f…

If they are fully static couldn't they probably be run at close to 0 cost from you?

Yes I'm not the pope, it's a cheap server. Still doesn't make any money.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by xnyanta »

kmlx wrote: post #263
betteryet wrote: post #178

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Same thing with Gandi, which is a shame. Domain renewal price silently went up 3x or so last year after getting acquired.

does anyone here use cloudflare as a registrar? i’m interested in any potential negatives.

I am happily using them for all of my domains they support. The problem with Cloudflare registrar is that they flat out don't support many domains/tlds.
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