Eh, there's a point where the parody is angrier and less funny than the subject, and this is well past that. Someone has too much time on their hands.
CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#52This is why you want to remove as many intermediaries between your content and your audience as possible. Ideal scenario is your own ASN and a pipe with a commit and your own physical box. The only takedown target is your upstream bandwidth provider. From there you’re adding takedown targets: hosting provider, edge cache/firewall provider, commercial CMS, etc. So pick your middle ground carefully. I’d suggest that ch…
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#53CrowdStrike is arguing that their customers might mistake "ClownStrike" for their brand?
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#54What I don't understand is why companies and brands like this just don't use NameBlock or a similar domain blocking service like GlobalBlock. They literally can block domain names that have their company name or brand in them from being registered (up to 500 variations of their domain). It's literally like $99/year to place a block. Saves a lot of the hassle of having to deal with parody and phishing sites and trying…
This reads kind of like an advertisement. Plus it's subtly wrong.
My experience with the NameBlock API is that for those $99/year, they'll allow you to automate purchasing all similar domains. But then you have to pay registration fees on all of those domains, too. It's only $10/month per typo domain that you buy, but it sums up really quickly.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#55This is why you want to remove as many intermediaries between your content and your audience as possible. Ideal scenario is your own ASN and a pipe with a commit and your own physical box. The only takedown target is your upstream bandwidth provider. From there you’re adding takedown targets: hosting provider, edge cache/firewall provider, commercial CMS, etc. So pick your middle ground carefully. I’d suggest that ch…
In this case Cloudflare, in a spasm of comprehension failure, soiled themselves further by proving unable to distinguish between a trademark complaint and a copyright complaint, and erroneously labelled the former as the latter. Irrespective of the fair use merits on display, the DMCA simply does not apply to trademark disputes.
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Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#57What I don't understand is why companies and brands like this just don't use NameBlock or a similar domain blocking service like GlobalBlock. They literally can block domain names that have their company name or brand in them from being registered (up to 500 variations of their domain). It's literally like $99/year to place a block. Saves a lot of the hassle of having to deal with parody and phishing sites and trying…
How does that work in practice? Are you just paying them to lease it so you don’t have to?
If you place a block on a brand/companyname (a string of characters), then no one can register a domain name that contains those strings of characters. They also block up to 500 variations (placing a block on 'paypal' would get 'paypa1' blocked as well.
Those domains that are blocked won't be 'parked', someone trying to register the domain that's blocked, it will just say it's not available for registration.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#58Absolutely the most hilarious thing I have seen for a while. Thank you.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s quite surprising to me that they thought to do that, although maybe I’m just naive. I wonder what other parody names and altered versions they own…
CSCs whole deal is securing domain names for huge brands, they probably have people whose job involves thinking of derogatory domains like that so they can grab them pre-emptively. The people behind the .sucks TLD turned that into an incredible grift, they charge an exorbitant amount (about $300 a year) because they know every big brand will buy brand.sucks no matter what.
.sucks TLD sounds like genious idea made real.
http://microsoft.sucks redirect to Microsoft.com and they pay for it.
Re: CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
#60CrowdStrike/CSC has owned at least clownstrike.com and clownstrike.net since 2012, but they weren't on the ball with those new TLDs it seems.
I worked at company_name when the .xxx top level domain became available, and my boss was sure that we should buy company_name.xxx. I talked them out of it. Luckily no one has maliciously registered company_name.xxx all these years later. I guess it could happen any day now.