Re:CrowdStrike attempts takedown of parody site
by bhartzer on Thursday August 01, 2024 @07:10PM
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You're thinking of some other service, not NameBlock or GlobalBlock. There's no automated purchasing of all similar domain names. You don't pay registration fees, as the domains that end up being blocked will never be registered by anyone (not even you).
There literally is a block on the variations, it works at the Registry level not the registrar level.
Re:CrowdStrike attempts takedown of parody site
by snazz on Thursday August 01, 2024 @08:13PM
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According to their own website, the registry for .lol (as well as the major ones like .com, .org, and .net) doesn't listen to GlobalBlock, so I'm not sure this would have gotten them anywhere (see https://globalblock.co/included-extensions/). I couldn't find anything about NameBlock but their website says you have to sign an NDA before their sales team will even talk to you.
My experience with the NameBlock API is that for those $99/year, they'll allow you to automate purchasing all similar domains. But then you have to pay registration fees on all of those domains, too. It's only $10/month per typo domain that you buy, but it sums up really quickly.