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Originally Posted by Kelli58
Other affiliate programs have similar policies including Vivid, and Playboy. Buy a Playboy owned trademark domain name and watch how fast they sue your ass.
Vivid sent out letters like two years ago stating the same thing - our trademark, don't use it.
In the what it comes down to is, these companies HAVE to take every effort to protect their trademark or they have a worthless mark. Whoever doesn't understand that then clearly needs a few lessons in business.
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you totally miss the point / problem here. If FleshLight would have been "protecting" their trademark from day one and this was their policy then that would be a whole nother situation.
In this case they flat out told their affiliates they could use "fleshlight" in their domains to promote them, now they change their mind hold your money and demand that you transfer the ownership of those domains over to them. Thus causing you to lose a lot of money in affiliate sales, which you worked hard to build up, which they said was OK TO DO.
huge difference to a company who never said it was ok and had always been policing their trade mark, not allowing even affiliates to use it.