dmarcian.co.uk
Court-mandated legal injunction stuffed into a TXT record
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dmarcian.co.uk. IN TXT
;; ANSWER SECTION:
dmarcian.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "A United States Court has entered a preliminary injunction that prohibits DMARC Advisor from using the word dmarcian unless such use is accompanied by a statement which reads [...] This trademark is tโฆ"
Two companies are fighting over the "dmarcian" trademark in US and EU courts. A judge mandated that a disclaimer appear anywhere the brand is used. The administrators achieved malicious compliance by stuffing the entire legal injunction into a public DNS TXT record: "A United States Court has entered a preliminary injunction that prohibits DMARC Advisor from using the word dmarcian unless such use is accompanied by a statement which reads [...] This trademark is the trademark of dmarcian, Inc."
A United States Court has entered a preliminary injunction that prohibits DMARC Advisor from using the word dmarcian unless such use is accompanied by a statement which reads [...] This trademark is the trademark of dmarcian, Inc. and dmarcian, Inc. has not authorised, sponsored, or endorsed this product or service.