i think only those who are using their name to promote other shit are angry now ...

it sure does:2 cents:

Well they make no mention that they are targetting those who are promoting other sponsors with their trademarks. I received the email and I certainly don't fall into that category.

Everytime i see a company do this it shocks me. Go after bag guys one by one , not en masse like this , it makes no sense , scares your own affiliates and degrades confidence.

Lets just say for example , i start a blog called naughtyamericablog.com this is a pretty clear case of trademark infringment, but if i am promoting naughtyamerica the only thing accomplished by taking the domain is loss of business. as others have pointed out , the one month influx of free traffic doesn't = the future loss of traffic. The webmaster won't promote the site because they don't own it anymore , links will get pulled and the affiliate will move onto programs who aren't so picky. So you get a bunch of worthless domains and a handfull of pissed off affiliates for a couple months of free traffic.


and you made kitty cry, good job :winkwink:
http://psctools.com/gfy/sadkitty.jpg

No application

Crazy people over there. Get off your ass, their business is hurt so they have
to come up with something crazy like this. Fuckem. Losers.

Just screams poor business right now, with leakage. haha

And it's the most unprofessional way to kick their affiliates ass. I mean, they could write without sounding Too paranoid. :2 cents:

i guess it depends on how delusional the person is who is trying to protect their brand, and if they think 1/2 the net is infringing on their generic name. we all know who those people are.

Nothing wrong with protecting yourself, but there is something wrong trying to steal from people by strong arming them and scaring them into giving up their domains that you know would never hold up in court but you try anyway just to see who hands it over to you. :disgust

right like if i own naughtycams or something, maybe they are hoping i would be retarded and think oh shit i better give them my domain because they might sue me. That approach, however has worked by low life's here.

99.999% of the rest of the population (not adult online world) thinks of Non Applicable when they see NA, so good luck with that one.

business must really be down for NA (:1orglaugh)

Seems like a nice way to go about it.

That doesn't really matter.

Using a brand name that is in use by a known party is pretty foolish - first of all because most people simply abuse it by promoting competitors ..... This has to be punished and most jurisdictions respect this without the need of legal formalities.

Protect your brands and drive fraudulent affs out of the market.

I agree. I'm going after anyone with 'cuckold' or 'slut' or 'wife' or 'interracial' in their domain name. Get my atty on the line :1orglaugh

I had a bad experience with them. My revshare account was suspended without notice for what I later find out was due to having too good a ratios which they claimed were "completely and utterly impossible" to achieve and thus they assumed I must be doing something suspicious.

After finding this out, I tried to explain it was because I was linking directly to the join page for much of my traffic and as soon as I started doing this apparently NATS did not count those hits or severely undercounted them causing the high ratios. Not saying it was NATS fault as I may have linked to the page improperly even though sales were being recorded.

After telling them this my emails were no longer replied to. I mean if they did not want me to link directly to the join page fine, I would have just changed my links, but the way this was handled was horrible. Anyway, just wanted to vent as although this happened awhile ago I am always reminded of my experience whenever I see Naughty America mentioned.

It's easy to tell when a program is hurting or greedy!!

Sure protecting your brand name is fine but mass emails are not the way to do it :disgust

lol good luck on winning a case on a typo.

Speaking of which... you better start removing the unauthorized Shauna on your site.
http://www.titsandnippleslips.com/to...Sex-Tape02.jpg

Thanks Dennis.

Thought I had it all removed... must of missed the thumbs!

Good god. I'd heard you were good with quick results but I didn't realise just how much so :)

I agree, however the brand was helped along by all the affiliates :2 cents:

What's the use in going after an affiliate who is promoting the brand? Shooting oneself in the foot is never a productive move :2 cents:

q f t

They never stated anything about this. Like a professional company had done. I mean, most times not seen in the adult side.

Dear affiliate,

We have been slammed by crooked affiliates, please bear with me that we have
no...intentions to.....use this as a scarecrow but we have to protect our brand

Their letter was almost 1/10 as good as my 2.minute try.

i'm in the process of removing links, i had been promoting them for 7 years now

fuck naughty america

their time would b much better spent removing all their content from every tube on the planet....

my links are coming down too

Obnoxious. Stop being fucking lazy and go directly after the affiliates violating this policy instead of hitting all your affiliates with this type of email.

There was another annoying email sent recently from them that seemed like a personal attack as well but turned out to be a general email to all affiliates. Strike two, you're out.

They don't have a case. The term is just too common. I know, because they once tried it on my and lost the arbitration.

So Naughty america is gonna sue everyone? yea I can see that happen.... :1orglaugh

Well it's not as bad as the idiot trying to sue people who had the word generic word "sex" in a tube site..:1orglaugh

If someone is deliberately using their trademark then I don't see anything wrong with protecting their interests.

Ok let?s put it this way for example:
If I own na.de or any other na. from another country and Naughty America have no trade mark in that country they are out of their jurisdiction unless they have a worldwide trademark. Just my :2 cents:

And no I don't promote Naughty America or have any domains even close to their trade mark issue :)

Its greed you know :1orglaugh

lol I own a domain which has the name and also a logo of a travel agency(one of the biggest ones) and I won the domain case, so this NA bullshit isn't even worth to read.

Damn that's fucking bullshit.

If this is true, fuck Naughty America.

almost as...

Yep.. aint that the truth.

lol i think i remember that, didnt they try and say you were stealing their brand because you had "hot mom" in your domain? what a bunch of cock suckers. how much money did that end up costing you to defend yourself though?

edit: post any court documents you have with you winning, im sure anyone who has a domain they try and take can use them for their benefit.

question is why did you have it in the first place