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CrowdStrike/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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Since this is "their core business" it's hard to believe that this material misrepresentation wasn't knowing or willful. I believe they've partially opened themselves to a counter suit on this point.
FWIW: CSC is a company that other companies hire to act on its behalf. It's very likely that the company you work for uses CSC as it's registered agent in the State of Delaware for administrative purposes (CSC doesn't really do anything other than exist on paper and file annual forms to satisfy legal and compliance requirements necessary for companies to exist in the US). I wasn't aware they file DMCA requests on beh…
CSC is a well know high value domain registrar. Similar to MarkMonitor. I'm not surprised CSC does brand protection, also similar to MarkMonitor.
When I was at an employer that became a MarkMonitor customer, we didn't have enough domain business to meet the minimum spend, so we started using the Brand Protection "for free". Sometimes they have a hair trigger, we had our own accessory apps taken down occasionally. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Previous registrar was NetworkSolutions, lol; they had a customer service agent get phished, and the phishermen set new NS records for several domains, including ours. Major PITA.
Are companies still using their service?
I wonder to what extent companies consider the reputational damage these kinds of enforcement actions cause. I recently came across this when googling for information on a small Biotech startup: https://udrp.adr.eu/decisions/detail?id=65fab3e46fc02956a010... Will probably be the first thing I remember when I hear their name.
Oh wow, they sued someone who used his last name as a domain name because they feel like their trademark should allow them to prohibit him from using his family name ... And obviously they registered their trademark after he started using his name.
CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking sites down, I'll give them that.
CrowdStrike definitely has the chops when it comes to taking sites down, I'll give them that.
I guess this site is using Linux or BSD and they had to venture outside their usual modus operandi to DMCA... /s
https://www.techspot.com/news/103899-crowdstrike-also-broke-...
> I’m most definitely not trying to put CloudFlare in the middle on this… so I told CloudFlare that I will take the site off of CloudFlare; however, it is staying on the internet… I mean that’s kind, but the whole point of DMCA safe harbor provisions is that they aren’t in the middle of this. They send along the notice, you file a counter notice, and that’s it for their involvement, yeah? If CrowdStrike wants to pres…