Originally Posted by ottopottomouse

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.

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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.