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Just start with trademarking your sites, you will be able to close down all fraudulent domains using your brand name. I was surprised to how much this is abused in the adult industry.
Fleshlight.tv
thefleshlight.com
just a quick example, it's just not wise not to protect your brand even for an affiliate who might have good intentions with it. Try to set an auction site named the-e-bay.com, you won't know what hit you.
It's worth the $ to protect your brand name.
to Dugmor: If you invite potential affiliates to a party and they drink and eat on your costs and don't send you clicks well you can't blaim them, perhaps after talking with you they don't like what you have to offer. It's a business risk not only related to the adult industry. A company has a budget for this (or should have) a tgp gets freeloaders but in real life there are also lots of freeloaders. If you really hate that type of behaviour just stick to setting up a booth to talk with potential affiliates.
Something else that wasn't mentioned and bugs me is the abuse of known domain names on typo mistakes when you type naughtamerica.com instead of naughtyamerica.com and you get 15 popups. Also not good for you brand name, with a trademark you can claim these sites and redirect them to your own wich will benefit you again. (this hasn't got anything to do with affiliates but is also about abusing brand names.)
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