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Originally Posted by Sly
Furthermore, I ask sponsors to think of this... go to Google and type in your pay site name. Would you rather see 100 listings of sites with silly domains and 10 free pics promoting you? Or 100 listings of message boards, torrent directories, and tube sites giving away full length videos?
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Although that is a good point it is probably not how the sponsors are looking at domain grabbing.
They will be looking at it from the view of boohoo we only own 1 result on the first page of Google and are paying out to all the other 9. If we demand the other domains and people just hand them over we suddenly own all 10 results on the first page of Google and aren't having to give out a cut of profits.
This sort of thing does smell less of lawyers and more of accountants who I have seen in the past make a huge fucking mess of a business by doing a bit of penny-pinching for short term gain. No forward thinking about how fast the other domains will disappear off the face of the earth without the effort that had been put in by the original owner (or that destroying something you are being forced to give away is easy) and anybody suggesting the idea of 1 result + 9 affiliates being replaced by 1 result + 9 warez links will probably be met with a lalalala fingers in ears don't want to hear that as I don't fully understand response.
With regard to protecting a trademark on a name I can see it being justified getting upset about an affiliate running [sponsorsite]tgp.com but partly that is the fault of the sponsor for not registering it.