Re:Facebook sues Namecheap
by pc86 on Friday March 06, 2020 @10:36AM
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> This PR release is completely unnecessary if Facebooks intentions were simply to stop the phishing attacks.
That's not their goal at all (obviously).
This is at best tangentially related, but I once had a business model where I asked people to send me a friend request on Facebook. Rather than give them the FB URL directly, I registered [name]onfacebook.com and just had that on the card they received. All the domain did was redirect to my profile. No interstitial, the URL was replaced on redirect, literally just so I could say "[name] on facebook dot com" and have be easy to remember.
Less than a week later I received a nastygram from FB legal about protecting their copyright and that they expected me to shut the domain down immediately.
That's not their goal at all (obviously).
This is at best tangentially related, but I once had a business model where I asked people to send me a friend request on Facebook. Rather than give them the FB URL directly, I registered [name]onfacebook.com and just had that on the card they received. All the domain did was redirect to my profile. No interstitial, the URL was replaced on redirect, literally just so I could say "[name] on facebook dot com" and have be easy to remember.
Less than a week later I received a nastygram from FB legal about protecting their copyright and that they expected me to shut the domain down immediately.