After making claims in the past that it is ok to use the name "fleshlight" in your url when promoting their affiliate program, they recently have been contacting affiliates and threatening to not pay them unless they transfered ownership of that domain to FleshLight.
One such case played out in this thread:
https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1042415 which is now locked.
In the past FNCash has said:
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There was also some confusion about the use of fleshlight being in your domain name. To clarify, we are NOT stopping the use of fleshlight domain names, and any affiliate who has a site with the fleshlight name in it does NOT need to shut it down.
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https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=12860205&postcount=93
So as recent as a couple years ago they were publicly stating it was ok to go register a domain name with fleshlight in it, spend your time and money promoting and seo that domain and when you get to the point where you making good money from it they change their minds. They tell you, I am holding your money and not going to pay you unless you transfer ownership of the domain to us.
What do you think, bullshit or ok to pull this?
IMO, since they gave the ok to do this and then allegedly decided they needed to protect their trademark, a good compromise would have been to have the domain ownership transfered to FNCash, however allow the affiliate to leave the site as is with his referral links on it so he could still get credit for the sales and not lose all of his hard work and time.
Affiliates discuss....