Thread: Sponsors, do you allow affiliates to use your brand name in their domain name?
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Old 05-24-2012, 02:41 PM  
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Originally Posted by BNMedia View Post
I recently had a new affiliate sign up to promote www.kinkykicks.net using the domain www.kinkykicks.org and I'm not 100% happy happy this.
Then why didn't you register the .org?

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Kinky Kicks is my brand name and I personally don't feel that affiliates have the right to use this. Particularly when a Google search of 'Kinky Kicks' puts them at the number 2 spot under mine.
what would you rather see?
A SERP for "kinky kicks" with your site as the first result and an affiliate's site as the second result?
Or, a SERP for "kinky kicks" with your site as the first result and an illegal tube site or a torrent site or filelocker as the second result?

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but using a domain almost identical to mine isn't really going to capture potential members which I can't do on my own.
There's no way of knowing that.
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