🚨 Warning: New FAKE website offering FAKE KeePassXC downloads!

[gremlin@critter.cafe]

@keepassxc I mean idk from where you are but in the most cases it is enough to send a "friendly" letter from a lawyer to the Register and it is done. Nobody pays 50K for a Domain and these Scums of Re-Sellers know this. As said, maybe get a legal consultation of the Situation, I am not a lawyer I can only represent my Experience with these scummy Companies in the Past.

[keepassxc@fosstodon.org]

@gremlin Of course they want to auction it off. The 50k is just the "buy now, stupid" price. But we're not a registered legal trademark (yet). Otherwise we'd have done that a long time ago.

[gremlin@critter.cafe]

@keepassxc Welp okay, this is also a big point. But yeah GoDaddy is a Pain in the Ass. I really hope you get this shit under Control. (If no one else does it within the next week or so we can talk about me presenting the keepass-xc/net/org Domain for you guys as a little "gift". But rn I am on a business trip and really have no time to register/organize this)

[keepassxc@fosstodon.org]

@gremlin I would expect the domain to be put on the safe browsing list for a while and then they'll either drop it or park it. We don't need someone to gift us those domains (unless of course someone has the contacts or measures to transfer keepassxc[.]com to us). We can always buy a few more ourselves, but there will always be more.

[gremlin@critter.cafe]

@keepassxc as said, just an Offer. I once won against GDaddy with a lawyer, but this as said needs legal consulting. I guess you already contacted GDaddy about the Situation? I mean they will def. not Gift it to you but maybe they are a bit more calm when it comes to Non-Commercial Orgas

[dreua@hachyderm.io]

@keepassxc @eroc1990
Yeah, that sounds like Whac-a-mole.

Anything else that can be done about it?

I just reported it to DuckDuckgo, it is the third result for "keepass xc" there currently -.-

[keepassxc@fosstodon.org]

@gremlin Maybe I'll try again some time. I guess in the meantime I'll spend another €320 on 36 months of more typoquat domains. Fun fact: I checked whether IONOS had a better offer than Godaddy. They did for the domains themselves. But in addition they wanted a fixed one-time fee of just over €1800 for "premium domains". Ridiculous.

[gremlin@critter.cafe]

@keepassxc IONOS, GoDaddy etc are completly CRAP. I mainly use: Porkbun (always #1 for me), Spaceship & Namecheap. As said, never pay for Premium BS. Either go full Bonkers and Sue or ask/do nothing.

[keepassxc@fosstodon.org]

@gremlin Namecheap was another option. Maybe I'll transfer some there. But in the long run, it's not much cheaper either.

[gremlin@critter.cafe]

@keepassxc as said, for me Porkbun is No1. Great Support, more then fair Pricing and literally everything you need (a.E. Domain-Privacy) included.

[harvestmalletus@tiggi.es]

@keepassxc Jeeze people. Team KeePassXC is trying the best they can. It's absurd to think that a FREE project can just go out and buy $100,000 worth of typo domains. Do a little research into what you're clicking. I for one applaud the effort KeePassXC is making to try and calm it down, but give them a little slack.

[qgustavor@urusai.social]

@keepassxc Don't worry about that: I'm sure most people would agree with you that doing something like that is overkill for any FOSS project. If you were a per-profit company, sure, but it just makes no sense requiring that from you. Their expectations make absolutely zero sense for me. Donation money should be spent on better things than extra domains.

[tikkis@floss.social]

@dreua
Enter lots of fake emails to them? Possibly to domain that tarpits every access or something else that slows down them..
@keepassxc @eroc1990

[smalldog@social.smalldog.club]

@keepassxc this reminds me to send a donation. Not to buy domains, but just because...

keepassxc is a fave.

[keepassxc@fosstodon.org]

@smalldog Thanks!

[keepassxc@fosstodon.org]

@dreua @eroc1990 Without a registered trademark, there's little we can do.

[keepassxc@fosstodon.org]

@gremlin I'll give it a try.

[pacman@swiss.social]

@keepassxc It's curious that this risk is not mentioned on the KeypassXC.org website.

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@keepassxc - Well, if this one strips out the AI contributions...