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by _heimdall 689 days ago
Were any of those success for violation of copyright or trademark when used in parody? I don't know if it would hold up, or how long it would even be between a domain registrar handing it over and having a day in court, but there does seem to be a good case for this being a protected use of CrowdStrike's protected branding.
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Untied.com lasted for a a really long time, but did eventually get taken down based on copyright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untied.com

That ruling is only relevant if the operator of clownstrike.lol is in Canada. The US in particular has much better protections for parody than most countries.
Yeah, there were a few. I believe they had to demonstrate that there was a risk that a customer could be misled or something.