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Yes I'm not the pope, it's a cheap server. Still doesn't make any money.
If it's a static site, you could move it to Cloudflare Pages to reduce the cost to zero.
- automated notice of trademark infringement from some posted user content, accusing us of "fraud and phishing" (filed by a third party on behalf of Meta)
- that user content was immediately deleted upon receiving the notice
- exactly a week later, our host (Heroku) banned our account with a generic no-reason "Your account has been banned."
Total downtime of about 24 hours until it was resolved; luckily, Heroku's support simply unbanned the account whenever I reached out to ask why we were banned. Migrating to another host wouldn't have taken much longer, but would have been a pain.
Goes to show layering a couple automated processes together can have pretty devastating false-positives. I'm glad there was a human in the loop at Heroku I could reach to get things sorted out relatively quickly; also glad to see Itch.io is back up and got it sorted out relatively quickly as well.
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…
Filing false reports like this should count as fraud.
I sent a request to the registrar, and they emailed with this response. They're claiming it wasn't their fault. -------- Your request has been updated. To add additional comments, reply to this email. 9 Dec 2024, 10:57 UTC Hello and thank you for your message. The domain name was already reinstated earlier today after the registrant finally responded to our notice and took appropriate action to resolve the issue
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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?
I've been using IONOS (formerly 1und1) for the last 20 years for all of my DNS and hosting needs and couldn't be happier. Their uptime, non-obtrusive policies, and customer support have all been top notch . Can't recommend enough. As an example; I had a dedicated server that I was leasing that I wanted to upgrade, the sales tech noticed that the plan I was currently on had been retired/replaced and credited my accoun…
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Just gonna point out that the Nintendo going after fanworks bit is a tad blown out of proportion, especially online. They're definitely known for being way too heavy handed (especially compared to the likes of Sega), but they're not exactly going after every fan project they see on the internet. Large sites whose entire purpose is to host fan games and mods for the Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, etc series have been up for d…
Nintendo just finished killing both major switch emulators.
The courts have told Nintendo numerous times that they are in the wrong in this behavior and outlook. They have no legal means to keep Dolphin off Steam and it is a matter of judicial record that emulators are not an infringement of your IP on their own. Nintendo doesn't care and openly discusses their intent to make you suffer through lawfare. A just system would smack them down with a vexatious litigant label, but our system gives businesses infinite benefit of the doubt.
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iwantmyname was bought out by a conglomerate, “Team Internet[1]”, a few years ago. Prices went up, service went down. I’d recommend moving your domains when you can (Porkbun have been good, though I haven’t had any incidents like this). Best of luck! 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Internet
+1 for Porkbun
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I find it curious that this (purely factual and correct) comment got downvoted/flagged into oblivion.
How would you know whether Modified3019’s comment is factual and correct? sureglymop wrote “note: this was a different registrar than mentioned here”, and they haven’t written any other comments in the thread that might identify the registrar.
By following the reference they provided, which is to a post by the person running itch.io stating just that.
I don't know if the linked comment is actually correct, but the link to a comment plus quoteof the relevant part seems as factual as it gets.
If you want to get with a registrar who is actually clueful about takedowns, we can help you out.
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> 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 The last thing I want is to be a 70 y/o still supporting a registrar. Especially considering the margins.
You can be responsible with an exit and sell to someone you’d believe will keep the company’s mission.
And it's not like running a registrar is something what can even have a mission other than earning money.