[jsheard]

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.

[freehorse]

This is true [0]! But even more surprisingly clownstrike.com redirects to crowdstrike.com. I am surprised why they may have thought this is a good idea, but it means that we can actually use clownstrike.com instead to reference it in the web.

[0] https://www.whois.com/whois/clownstrike.com

[shakna]

It's fairly par for the course, for big business.

For example: https://www.microsoft.sucks/en-au/microsoft-365

[freehorse]

I assume they intend to redirect misspells, and they unintentionally include domains making fun of them, but it is still funny and stupid they do it.

[Avicebron]

I get it, staying on the ball in fast-changing dynamic environments can be tough, good thing they don't run an EDR

[scintill76]

Their TLD scraper created a file of nothing but zeroes, so the registration script crashed and went into a bootloop trying to read it.

[bitslayer]

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.

[account42]

Does rule 34 apply to corporations?

[xanderlewis]

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…

[jsheard]

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.

[SXX]

.sucks TLD sounds like genious idea made real.

http://microsoft.sucks redirect to Microsoft.com and they pay for it.

[duskwuff]

I worked for a company where MarkMonitor proactively registered domains for us which were likely typos of our brand (e.g. example.com -> examlpe.com, exmaple.com, etc), and would hunt down registrations of new domains which appeared likely to be phishing sites. They didn't catch everything, but they were pretty good.

[popcalc]

.EXPOSED operates on the same premise. And a lot of these gTLDs are run by groups of the same shady guys based out of Cyprus and Hong Kong.

[volkl48]

I mean, there's now what, 2,000 TLDs and growing? I'm not sure it's going to be practical to own every likely parody domain at every TLD.

[djbusby]

A big company can afford it. Drop in the bucket.

[tamimio]

Ah, what?! So, there was already a running joke about CrowdStrike being a clown one? Otherwise, why buy it and redirect to it? What about DoubtStrike?