Did this account violate your ToS or the actual law? While I totally understand where are you coming from and I would probably be forced to do the same, I still tend to believe that closing a fan account is exactly the same thing that your registrar did to you.
Besides that, there are so many websites with copyright content that never changes the domains, is just the domain registration bad or why they just disabled the domain?
But yes, no doubt, that system is broken and the registrar should have known better.
If they have a customer like steam would they just cut off the domain? Probably not.
Other domain registrations would just ignored this and nothing would happened.
I expect total ignorance from a typical domain registrar.
> If they have a customer like steam would they just cut off the domain? Probably not.
Take a look who is they registrar and then look their prices up.
> Other domain registrations would just ignored this and nothing would happened
Yeah, they would totally ignore their customer just like that one did.
Unfortunately, providing proper support and protecting own customers in digital realm is an unsustainable business practice for most registrars.
So, in case anyone is interested, their registrar is MarkMonitor Inc., with a pricing of "contact us". The only pricing info I could find [0] said that it's 20$/yr for a .com, but with a minimum spend of 10k$ (probably reached by using their other services, such as the stated purpose of monitoring of trademarks).
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