Yesterday, indie game marketplace Itch.io was briefly taken offline due to a dispute with Funko. Itch claimed that a "bogus phishing report" caused by "some trash 'AI-Powered' Brand Protection Software" was to blame for the temporary outage.
Itch was later told that "The domain name was already reinstated earlier today after the registrant finally responded to our notice and took appropriate action to resolve the issue," which should have spelled the end of the issue.
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However, in a strange turn of events, Itch's founder, who controls the company's social media account revealed that, during the dispute, Funko reportedly called their mom.
For a while, things looked dire for Itch.io. Extended website downtime would have a severe impact on both the company and the developers that rely on its revenue, so the site started working on contingencies.
"Implications with third-party services" meant that, despite being considered, a new domain wasn't deployed, with Itch instead opting to wait the outage out.
Following the downtime, though, when things had seemingly blown over, Leaf Corcoran, founder of Itch, revealed that Funko reportedly called their mom during the dispute.
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