What the fuck, I assumed that this issue is resolved by now but turns out itch.io is still can’t be accessed

the domain registrar never responded, what a fucking joke. time to switch

Notice there’s no “sorry” in the translation

Has Funko, BrandShield, and the registrar released any statements yet?

This is unprofessionalism on MANY many parts

Can someone explain? How does Funko have such ability?

This isn’t related to Fediverse.

Upvoted because of actual unpopular opinion

yup. someone is lying here

I would not even call it enshittification, this actually seems like a good trade off. How else they would make money? Ads? If they run ads that would be instant no from me

There are lots of finger-pointing here. Funko said the takedown was done by their partner, BrandShield. BrandShield said it was a URL-specific (or is it subdomain?) takedown, not the whole domain. The registrar, Iwantmyname, responded said takedown by taking down the WHOLE domain.

I think Funko shouldn’t have trusted AI to do legal-related stuff. BrandShield is a stupid idea born from the AI-hype. It’s stupid and shouldn’t have existed. Iwantmyname is just as incompetent if not more–they haven’t even released any public statement about this. Their customer support are also slow to response apparently.

Itch.io should move domain registrar. Funko should stop using BrandShield, it only damages their brand more.

Also what’s up with Funko calling someone’s mom lol. that’s stupid

I also think that this is why AI won’t replace our jobs. I’ve seen many instances where technologies replaces jobs, but this ain’t it