“TotalEnergies also sent a demand to the website’s hosting service, Netlify, that got repaer.earth taken offline.”
Modest Proposals built Repaer, a fake company mocking the LNG industry, and listed three real gas companies as partners. TotalEnergies and Equinor threatened legal action. Netlify made the group file a DMCA counternotice with a 10-business-day wait for a claim that was never DMCA. Two energy majors could not win on trademark, so they leaned on the host.