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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anon Adderlan" data-source="post: 9531206" data-attributes="member: 53053">Hate to break it to you, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364429" target="_blank">but AI wasn't the issue here</a>. Once again it boils down to simple incompetence and a cascade of failure.<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364033" target="_blank">I'm the one running itch.io, so here's some more context for you: From what I ca... | Hacker News</a><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364831" target="_blank">I run a domain registrar. "serverHold" is not a status that iwantmyname could've... | Hacker News</a><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369383" target="_blank">Interesting, this morning I got a response from a staff member of the parent com... | Hacker News</a><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372191" target="_blank">Funko's statement: >At Funko, we hold a deep respect and appreciation for indie ... | Hacker News</a>In short, the whole situation is as clear as a brick wall. Funko Pop claims they were the ones who issued the takedown, but only for the page, and they don't specify it was for fraud and phishing. iwantmyname claims they took the site down because itch.io failed to respond to their notice. itch.io claims iwantmyname failed to respond to their inquiries. And while I can't say for certain without seeing the page, I can at least understand how a fan page on an app store could be identified as fraud and phishing.This is why I advise all businesses to have multiple domain names in different jurisdictions, especially here given .io is set to be retired. Also never name your business after a domain name.</blockquote>

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