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I like namecheap. It serves its purpose.
I also like supporting a Ukrainian company. Only downtime I had was when their offices were being bombed, and they were quick to both restore services and make their infrastructure resilient to future such… interference.
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easyDNS (not to be confused with DNSEasy or DNS Made Easy). Very happy customer for many years and there are not many companies I can say that about. If you are in Germany donaindiscount24.com is good option too.
Beware! The OP was originally at a good provider which got bought out by Team Internet. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364033 If you take a look at: https://www.domaindiscount24.com/en/about-us You will see that Team Internet owns them as well. So I would personally bve on the fence if I would consider them good or not.
They were my second registrar. In fact more like the first "real" registrar, because before and in the 90s I registered via a one-man show.
But of course things can change. Let's see how this develops.
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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…
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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.
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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.
What registrar do you run?
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It's just so surprisingly tone deaf when things like this are done by companies that exist purely within the goodwill of their customers. Nothing that funko brings to the table has inherent value. If they have any world outlook other than to love their customers as much as they can, then they will fail in a time measured in quarters.
I'm pretty sure Funko used their service in good faith and didn't know it's based on over-aggressive AI bullshit. They're still on the hook for picking a bad company to partner with, but I don't think they intended to take down the entire domain.
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This kind of impersonation/defamation is one of the edge cases where its good to have a DMCA process. You want to quickly take down something like this and then deal with the slow legal stuff over time.
They have a DMCA process. As far as I know it only helps in a case like this if they sue Funko or the brand management service. Itch is a small indie operation funded by actual commerce, so might not be able to afford it.
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Can you transfer the domain out?
Unfortunately the domain has a hold placed on it by the registrar, so I believe transferring is disabled. I also wouldn't want to risk doing a transfer at an hour when their staff aren't available to help with the current issue.