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by egorfine 556 days ago
> I had removed the page and disabled the account

Did this account violate your ToS or the actual law? While I totally understand where are you coming from and I would probably be forced to do the same, I still tend to believe that closing a fan account is exactly the same thing that your registrar did to you.
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0x073 556 days ago
It's not optimal, but he must choose between every published game there and one fanpage.

Besides that, there are so many websites with copyright content that never changes the domains, is just the domain registration bad or why they just disabled the domain?

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egorfine 556 days ago
It's not optimal, but the registrar had to choose between every registered domain there and one business.

But yes, no doubt, that system is broken and the registrar should have known better.

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0x073 556 days ago
I don't know the company size, but as a paying customer I expect them better support and more time.

If they have a customer like steam would they just cut off the domain? Probably not.

Other domain registrations would just ignored this and nothing would happened.

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egorfine 556 days ago
> I expect them better support

I expect total ignorance from a typical domain registrar.

> If they have a customer like steam would they just cut off the domain? Probably not.

Take a look who is they registrar and then look their prices up.

> Other domain registrations would just ignored this and nothing would happened

Yeah, they would totally ignore their customer just like that one did.

Unfortunately, providing proper support and protecting own customers in digital realm is an unsustainable business practice for most registrars.

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Sebb767 556 days ago
> Take a look who is they registrar and then look their prices up.

So, in case anyone is interested, their registrar is MarkMonitor Inc., with a pricing of "contact us". The only pricing info I could find [0] said that it's 20$/yr for a .com, but with a minimum spend of 10k$ (probably reached by using their other services, such as the stated purpose of monitoring of trademarks).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18063232

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egorfine 556 days ago
Last time I have heard about them it was $5k/y.
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TiredOfLife 556 days ago
It's not optimal, but the domain registrar must choose between every domain they have and one that is causing trouble.
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