Originally Posted by Ramster (Post 20406738) When you think about it why pay an affiliate half of all sales and rebills when the affiliate is using a typo of their registered trade mark? I wouldn't. That is about as blatant a cyber squatting case there is. I'm surprised they've been paying him this long lol.

Originally Posted by L-Pink (Post 20406746) In the US you must take action to protect your trademark. Doing business with and paying someone for years that is using a variation of your trademark is hardly protecting it.

Originally Posted by InfoGuy (Post 20406779) Trademark law is supposed to prevent competitors from tarnishing or diluting the owner's trademark rights. There's nothing wrong with a company licensing rights to affiliates or franchises. McDonald's allows thousands of franchised restaurants to use their trademark legitimately, without fear of losing or weakening their mark.

Originally Posted by InfoGuy (Post 20406779) Trademark law is supposed to prevent competitors from tarnishing or diluting the owner's trademark rights. There's nothing wrong with a company licensing rights to affiliates or franchises. McDonald's allows thousands of franchised restaurants to use their trademark legitimately, without fear of losing or weakening their mark.

I completely agree :thumbsup

I had an affiliate do the same thing. No work involved other than paying the domain registration fee and forwarding the mistype to my site, with his affiliate cookie of course.

I'm not employed by MindGeek so I'm going to disclose very little here. Someone there didn't do their research or they would have UDRP'd the more closely related domains that he owns. One was purchased a year after Brazzers went live. One forwards to Brazers.com which obviously forwards to Brazzers.com. Another domain closer to Brazzers goes directly to a virus now, another to cam sites, another went to Bang Bros. etc. etc.

So MindGeek, get more brains. You now know registrations were done by him AFTER you went live online, as well as before, with even more similar domains, and now at least one forwarding to a virus site, damaging your brand.

Feel free to thank me anyone who uses the info, publishes it on their blog, or follows my breadcrumbs to learn what I already know. :thumbsup One thing I learned after busting my ass for days to find, and publish on GFY, the Acacia Prior Art that sunk their ship in 2003, people take the info, maybe say thanks, it saved them God knows how much money, and I never saw a dime or got offered a job or partnerships, or free advertising. The only person that showed concrete appreciation was Paul Markham. He gave me $1,500 of free content of my choosing from his store. I'll never forget that. :thumbsup From that I've learned I'd rather just get paid.

Originally Posted by TeenCat (Post 20407040) lol guys, can someone explain me, why dont you buy the domain yourself, if you have problem that someone else is using it? you will just leave it alone, see if someone develop it and put traffic on it, then just take it from him? and, if the guy do not develop, just leave it unregistered and hope someone will register, develop so you can take the site? come on ... :2 cents: it is about thinking business, if you have affiliate who is doing his best, why just dont work with him payouts like 30% instead of 50%, on that domain/campaign? that is business wise both ways ... otherwise it is just crying that you have been slow and didnt seen something like typo domains comming ... sad ... and, if some pirate or fraudster buy it somewhere in russia, you will just now cry like small kid and do nothing about it, seeing how somebody is purely parasiting and sending you no single hit ... oh, man ... :2 cents:

I like that you work hard and speak your mind honestly all the time, rare trait around here lately :thumbsup

I'm sure MindGeeks TOS state no typos, etc. They could always file a UDRP against the guy who owns Brazers.Biz, a malware site. Interesting choice of how they're choosing to begin the UDRP process.

Originally Posted by Markul (Post 20406666) Sign of the times...

Originally Posted by lezinterracial (Post 20407184) Yea, WGCZ sued and won xvideos.tv just this month. It seems like this suing in the US could open these guys up to lawsuits for all the stolen videos on their sites. I guess they feel pretty comfortable now.

I'd love to sue the site below at this point. They've dicked me around for over a year now, and the DMCA company I hired, at great expense of my time and money. It seems we were lied to about my companies content being taken down, you might even be able to say tricked with cookies.

If MindGeek foots the bill I'll provide more knowledge. I assume MindGeeks Men.com cares about their content being given away for free and/or for a membership fee by a non copyright holder. My skype is in the footer.



MindGeek might not even care about their Gay content for free, or pay, on a tube site. I hope that's not the case.

Originally Posted by Markul (Post 20407520) I can point to at least one scammer in this thread that is funded by ManWinning :thumbsup This place is EPIC :D

Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20406818) Wasn't there precedent set already tho? Wasn't there another case a few years back where a domain got all their affiliates' domains transferred over to them? I seem to remember some discussion that this may even be a new business strategy. Let the affiliates build up traffic/sales/seo then take the domain away from them.

Originally Posted by Bladewire (Post 20407049) I like that you work hard and speak your mind honestly all the time, rare trait around here lately :thumbsup I'm sure MindGeeks TOS state no typos, etc. They could always file a UDRP against the guy who owns Brazers.Biz, a malware site. Interesting choice of how they're choosing to begin the UDRP process.