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Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by pabs3 »

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…

What are the sites called? Would like to get them saved to archive.org :)

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by nguyenquocthao »

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…

So Linode hosts your server, and iwantmyname provides your domain? If they want they can take down your server and your domain? Is there any server provider / domain provider who doesn't hold that kind of power?

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by nicoloren »

Aachen wrote: post #428
subarctic wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean at least those are walled garden platforms where this sort of thing we've come to expect. An independent website as big as itch.io going down because of a bogus complaint is a big surprise

That's what I thought. Last week, two of my domains were frozen by the TLD owner without notice, and they'd take them offline altogether in 7 days if I didn't supply some paperwork to my registrar I've had these domains for ten years, now all of a sudden this is super urgent and if I'm on holiday that'd be a real shame I guess So I contact the registrar and a link to the relevant legislation was sufficient to send th…

I am French, so GDPR exist in France. But AFIC has some rules for the domain names you can, or can't buy: https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/documents-...

Maybe your domains are affected buy a new or old policy?

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by spondyl »

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

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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…

> 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

Oh yeah, I fully agree with the enshittification sentiment.

Admittedly, a DNS registrar for me personally is something I'd just swap without much thought but I can think of a few services I use where I wouldn't be so loosely coupled from the product if those founders were to exit.

It's a bit paradoxical on my part I think and I do wish we had more lifestyle businesses that don't have to become massive.

Mind you, I would have put iwantmyname in that basket now that I think about it.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by przmk »

tekknik wrote: post #468

who exactly is taking bluesky seriously? what’s their moderation policy?

What does that have to do with the official itch account posting there? How would your seemingly personal beef with Bluesky impact the credibility of that?

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by Vilian »

loeg wrote: post #455
Suppafly wrote: post #401

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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.

.su is still around.

That's why they are shutting .io to not make the same mistake again

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by TZubiri »

remram wrote: post #454
TZubiri wrote: post #417

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You can switch registrars if you want.

This requires cooperation from your current registrar, and involves the registry operator for your TLD which is again a single entity.

You are consistently objectively wrong on the facts. So your subjective take that dns is decentralized is again wrong.

You can choose different TLDs. Don't like VeriSign's .com? Go with a country tld or make your own tld. Also tld are regulated it isn't even an independent private entity.

Finally switching registrars does NOT require cooperation of the losing registrar, but of the upstream DNS.

The sane take is just don't chose a meme registrar from a bullshit country just because it sounds like something else.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by iosjunkie »

red-iron-pine wrote: post #305
thomasfortes wrote: post #276

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You're stuck with cloudflare nameservers¹, so if you want to change nameservers you need to transfer them to other registrar, how much of a deal breaker this is is up to you, to me is project dependent. 1. Section 6.1 of https://www.cloudflare.com/domain-registration-agreement/

> 6.1 Nameservers. Registrant agrees to use Cloudflare’s nameservers. REGISTRANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT MAY NOT CHANGE THE NAMESERVERS ON THE REGISTRAR SERVICES, AND THAT IT MUST TRANSFER TO A THIRD PARTY REGISTRAR IF IT WISHES TO CHANGE NAMESERVERS. there are very few parts of that contract in all caps, but that's one of them :/

That's annoying. For some use cases, not a big deal. But I have used the AWS Route 53 'alias' functionality on a number of occasions and that requires the use of Route 53 nameservers.

Re: Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

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Post by Aachen »

nicoloren wrote: post #473
Aachen wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I thought. Last week, two of my domains were frozen by the TLD owner without notice, and they'd take them offline altogether in 7 days if I didn't supply some paperwork to my registrar I've had these domains for ten years, now all of a sudden this is super urgent and if I'm on holiday that'd be a real shame I guess So I contact the registrar and a link to the relevant legislation was sufficient to send th…

I am French, so GDPR exist in France. But AFIC has some rules for the domain names you can, or can't buy: https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/documents-... Maybe your domains are affected buy a new or old policy?

I am; I can't buy . because it's a municipality or something in France and so I can't have the domain name for one of their overseas islands like Pierre et Miquelon (.pm). My registrar gave a refund for that one after the registration failed

But that's not the case for the domains AFNIC did grant. They registered successfully and I can still use them, also after this verification sham, AFNIC just insisted that I confirm immediately that I e.g. live where I said I live over ten years ago

I'm well aware that GDPR exists in France btw, but AFNIC is not — or at least has a different interpretation of what "not processing data unnecessarily" and "treating racial, biometric, and gender data as extra sensitive" means (they insisted I send all of these categories over plain email to a helpdesk system; I tried giving them an https link to a .jpg on the domain in question instead, but that was rejected with a "please attach to the email")

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