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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
But Streamate seems to have cut him off. ...
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He owns Streamate. And I found that out two minutes ago when I clicked a link in this thread. One click, then Google, his website, his companies. If
I could find it, anyone can. I couldn’t remember how to research a company or their sites; amnesia wins again.
Why he stopped using it for that site is only answerable by him. Perhaps your threat to tell all cam sponsors to drop him worked? Maybe he researched cybersquatting and infringements.
Search and ye shall find.
(I registered all tld variations of my main domain. I’d trademarked the magazine name and domain name with words such as “websites, magazines, blogs, TGPs, Usenet groups” and more. They can use the name only if not promoting my niche Some fuckwit grabbed the dot net and threw up pages for my competition. He was earning off my name by flooding page ends with my domain/magazine name before Google began looking for that. A customer was a lawyer and filed free of charge. Trademark infringement, domain something, defamation... I don’t remember all the charges. He forfeited the domain, paid around $20k, and was prohibited from promoting his sites by using my domain/magazine name to get higher search engine rankings. It was aggravating as he’d previously joined my paysite and stolen content for his own paysite. He was sued, I won, $$$$ and his domain taken down. We had a history and he again tried to screw me over. He switched niche and I notified his new sponsors to watch his content and ads. I learned a lesson then to register all variations of my domain. It’s easier to drop $10/year per site than go through this shit with time loss, money loss, fear of retribution plus damage control (“Pam I paid $24.95 to join your site and it is gone. Pay me back or I’ll tell everyone your (sic) a thief.”)
A trademark and/or copyright protects you, but $9.99/year per domain.tld is cheaper than spending time and money to get things taken down.
Be proactive. Take the domain registration costs as a tax deduction for “insurance” because, technically, it is. (Not tax advice. Ask a tax professional.”)