Originally Posted by CunningStunt

There was nothing in their affiliate T&C's when I signed up to their program in 2002 that said I couldn't register domains containing their site names, every smart affiliate knew the value of that back in the day. It's still important to this day of course on some search engines.

It seems unjust that they are now retroactively trying to impose this new ruling. If they want some of my "choice" domains now, I'll ask for some reasonable compensation, or they can send me some legal documents and I'll take down links to their sites from every site I have them on, stop promoting them, and urge everyone else to do the same.

Program owners should remember the value of affiliates, without us, your brands may never have taken off, you may have only made a tenth of your total sales. To fuck us over is a daft business practice.