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Originally Posted by munki
Don't start getting pissy because people protect the trademarks and brandnames they've put actual work into. .
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protecting trademarks by penalizing your own affiliates is the issue, nobody is against legit trademark infringment disputes that make sense. i.e. ( hustler.com using "topplayboyvideos.com" ).
The nature of the beast is this, its very simple.
search engines are the root of traffic, the nature is you search for something you get results, whether we like it or not , many of these results are irrelevent, some may have trademark issues but most of them you can't do anything about. If i start a website called "example.com" and dont have affiliates if you search example.com i will likely be #1 and then all the rest of the sites will be people not promoting me, so %1 of the top 100 results promote me. by allowing affiliates to promote me using "buyexample.com" , "bestexample.com", "freeexample.com" ,"topexample.com"etc i increase that percentage to 5% . i fail to see the downside, there is no dillution of the name.