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Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by leafo »

TheEnbyperor wrote: post #174
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…

I run a domain registrar. "serverHold" is not a status that iwantmyname could've set. If they had suspended the domain it'd have "clientHold" set. Server Hold means the registry (i.e. .io directly) has suspended the domain. Your best bet would be to contact the Internet Computer Bureau Ltd who run .io at admin@icb.co.uk, or the registry technical support provider Identity Digital at techsupport@identity.digital.

Interesting, this morning I got a response from a staff member of the parent company that owns iwantmyname saying they didn't get my response with regards to the abuse notification they sent and that's why they took the domain down.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by fwip »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #235
kaoD wrote: post #155

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> 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…

> 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 retire or quit, like a normal person. I'm sure you can find a new CEO.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by no_wizard »

derefr wrote: post #374
no_wizard wrote: post #359

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Porkbun is best on the market at this point. Namecheap I find is less easier to use and sometimes higher cost over time. I also haven’t had reliable domain renewal service from them when I used them. Granted this is all a few years back. I was at Cloudflare until this year when I switched to Porkbun and I’ve been very happy

Why'd you switch away from Cloudflare['s registrar]?

Nameserver lock in. While I use Cloudflare right now for most things, I value the decoupling. Cheap way to make sure that my services aren't in total control of my domain.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by unanimous »

Suppafly wrote: post #401
qingcharles wrote: post #363

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And isn't .io on borrowed time, since the country will soon no longer exist?

Do they get rid of TLDs once the country they are assigned to goes away? I assumed they'd sell them to someone or something.

They might not have much of a choice but to shut down all .io domains. This video explains a little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yJ6AZsUlpc

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Post by egorfine »

Sebb767 wrote: post #277
egorfine wrote: post #196

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> I expect them better support I expect total ignorance from a typical domain registrar. > If they have a customer like steam would they just cut off the domain? Probably not. Take a look who is they registrar and then look their prices up. > Other domain registrations would just ignored this and nothing would happened Yeah, they would totally ignore their customer just like that one did. Unfortunately, providing pro…

> Take a look who is they registrar and then look their prices up. So, in case anyone is interested, their registrar is MarkMonitor Inc., with a pricing of "contact us". The only pricing info I could find [0] said that it's 20$/yr for a .com, but with a minimum spend of 10k$ (probably reached by using their other services, such as the stated purpose of monitoring of trademarks). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

Last time I have heard about them it was $5k/y.

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Post by TZubiri »

viraptor wrote: post #189
TZubiri wrote: post #170

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Are there any well established definitions for these terms as separate?

Yes? Basically half of them? Some people put federation in decentralised group, some say only distributed is decentralised. In short: centralised = 1 owner/operator, federated = many semi-autonomous operators to choose from, decentralised/distributed = everyone's an operator on the same level. With DNS you still have groups of operators who can tell you what to do and they have the main agencies on top of that. I sub…

Source: It came to me in a dream.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by TZubiri »

remram wrote: post #410
TZubiri wrote: post #15

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It is as decentralized as you can get. Dns is the entire foundation of decentralization, any more and you get into schizo hyperprivacy protocols.

The network is decentralized, but each domain still has a single registrar, making the service you (domain owner) receive very centralized. If that one registrar misbehaves or is unresponsive, you're out of luck.

You can switch registrars if you want.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by TZubiri »

jstanley wrote: post #200
TZubiri wrote: post #15

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It is as decentralized as you can get. Dns is the entire foundation of decentralization, any more and you get into schizo hyperprivacy protocols.

So, it's not as decentralised as you can get, you just personally don't like decentralisation?

*Without descending into a madness that decentralizes your very thought process and identity

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Post by moralestapia »

lxgr wrote: post #384
moralestapia wrote: post #201

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Trademarks are country specific while domain names are not. Would be interesting to know what happens if they took this to trial (in which country though).

Of course domain registrations are also subject to national law. .io in particular is (currently) under UK jurisdiction.

Hmm ... you're right, I could have worded that differently to help people like you understand the point being made.

s/domain names are not/DNS is not/

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

pdpi wrote: post #193
CaptainFever wrote: post #101

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I really wish BrandShield didn't use AI as a marketing term. It just looks like it's doing a generic ctrl-F on webpages? Then things like this happen, and people think "ooh AI is bad, the bubble must burst" when this has nothing to do with that in the first place, and the real issue was that they sent a "fraud/phishing report" rather than a "trademark infringement" report. Then I also wish that people who knew better…

I find that businesses that bill themselves as ${TOOL}-users instead of ${PROBLEM}-solvers are, as a general rule, problematic. I couldn't possibly care any less whether a product is built on AI or a clever switch statement or a bazillion little gnomes doing the work by hand. I care that it solves a problem. AI does need to die. Not so much because LLMs are bad, but rather because, like "big data" and "blockchain" an…

Yes. If your business solves a real customer problem and uses "blockchain" to do it, that's great, but you should describe yourself as a tool to solve the problem. If you mention blockchain on the homepage of your product at all, it should be treated with suspicious. It's a sign that you're speaking to investors and fools and not to savvy customers.

One exception: personal projects. "This is an NES emulator that is built in Rust, and it uses Rust because I wanted to learn Rust" is a perfectly good description of a project (but not a business).

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