At the end of the day, I'm happy a lot of you are starting to see the value of a good program. I'm happy I switched everything to TB when I started working with them and didn't change anything even after I left. I don't do anything to promote them anymore, yet I still make money from 5-6 yr old sites.

The more appreciation they get from affiliates, the gladder I am cuz they deserve it! There are few outstanding programs still left in the gam, and Topbucks is on the top of the list.

Here Far-L I did you a favor, good luck chasing them all :glugglug

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All registered typos of the homegrown video brand.

Yeah, fortunately that other one is actually redirecting directly to us with out any affcode. The traffic on both those domains is tiny, like one hit a month or 1.3 every three months. Still we take even that small a misuse of our mark seriously. Like I said though, most, not all are easy to deal with... however, the whois on that one gives a Bellevue Washington number and since I am Seattle... putting on the ninja suit and handling that one personally should not be a problem. :winkwink:

Many, many thanks for the offer to help. Hit me up on email when it is convenient for you. timlake at homegrownvideo dot com.

Many thanks, that is most hugely appreciated.

Going to tell you right now that chasing this kind of stuff is one of the least fun parts of the day so your helping out is really, really damn decent of you.

Thank you!

Tobucks hardly has the same "brands" as ND.

Interesting observation in light of what was said earlier. Certainly points to what is at stake here if you ask me.

:2 cents:

just got the email from ND concerning the trademarks:

Hi Guys, I know in the last few weeks you will all have been contacted about
some trademarked domains that we need to get transferred. I wanted to write
this email to you all because we value our partners, and heard some
complaints from some of you. We have a revised plan that I am thinking of,
but I would like to discuss it with you all and fine tune it to a mutually
beneficial arrangement. Please email me at your convenience so we can
discuss.

Thank you,
Ernesto
NastyDollars



it would be good to know the revisited plan, but i am today leaving my country for a week, so i am not able to discuss anything with them right now.

they have to know what sites are hurting and what sites are helping to their trademark. i have seen many of their domains that are more than ugly, but i have seen also some that are really nice and i will be glad for those free sites as sponsor. go nasty think! :)

just got another email, in a few words = they didn't find anything to cooperate with webmasters and still want "their" domains :D

Talk about role reversal, I recently discovered why the sponsor CamazonCash who operated their main site Camazon had to cease operations and become Loadedcash. Seems Amazon didn't like their name being infringed upon and took over the domain Camazon, forcing the program to come up with a new flagship site - xxxblackbook.com http://whois.domaintools.com/camazon.com

Rofl :-)

I know this is an old thread but it's my first time seeing it.

WINNER!

The straight side of the industry is dying a slow death because the lawyers are focused on the wrong thing.

On the gay side the lawyers are busy going after tubes, torrents and other things. They may not be outright winning, but they are surviving because they are focusing on what matters.

If you apply the 80/20 principle, affiliates sitting on domains are 20% of the problem and everything else is 80% of the problem. Ignore the 20% and focus on the 80% that is really causing harm.

if your a cybersquat affiliate its a good idea to push just the site your squatting on that domain

Its starting to get Ugly. soon webmasters wont be needed

We dont care...

Anyone else receive emails today?

you mean thread related? from who?

Bump for including Kinkydollars on list of programs to avoid

dukedollars?

Funny shit...

The two programs referenced ended up letting me have the domains since I was promoting their products only...

So which big programs are kosher with using their site names in affiliate promo?

To my knowledge the only ones kosher are Media revenue owned...

ND and NA both updated their terms of service to exclude the use of their domain names from future advertising.

I can confirm it.