Kinkydollars trying to take your sites as well?

I know someone that had a GGW domain, and GGW come after him ...

He didnt do anything about when emailed, soon after they set lawyers after it and lost ... didnt cost him anything

Still to this day he owns it and does not promote GGW on it ...

I can't get into specific details due to a disclosure agreement - but years ago we owned a bdsm/fetish feeder domain with a certain adjective word as part of the domain name.

Despite the fact it was all our original content, website design and in no way resembled or had anything to do with the other company (other than a simple word)...their in-house attorney calls me one day to prattle on about trademark infringement and threatened to sue us.

I initially asked if he was having a slow day in the office...then eventually told him to go fuck himself. So he calls back a second time to announce he's sending a C&D letter. I hung up a second time - and contacted our own attorney.

He suggested we make an offer to sell them the domain - so I let him broker the deal. We eventually settled on a 5-digit price (far more than twice the annual revenue) and signed it over.

They put a re-direct on it...used it as a feeder page for a few years. And then we laughed last year when I noticed the domain expired without renewal.

They asked about my sites... I showed them that they are selling their product. If they wanted them and they wanted to close my account I was going to have to redirect them and they could take them through the proper channels...

I still have my account and sites.

Many president cases on this... If you snatched up the expired domain you can then fuck them back in court... They have to maintain that domain or by not doing so they are telling the court they are releasing it.

I just have no interest in revisiting that chapter again. It's ancient history as far as we're concerned. We made out like bandits first time around...and turned the page.

not sue you, but TAKE YOUR AFFILIATE ACCOUNT...thats a new word. up until now, sponsor usually took domains, now they are after whole affiliate account with all rebills, which in the case of kinkydollars were outstanding, when i promoted them in the past.

"We are offering a buyout of your account for 2X your last monthly payout if you transfer all of your infringing domains with their content in the next 10 business days. In your case this would amount to $x."

So you give them all your affiliate domains, they takeover your account and you settle for 2x your last monthly payout. Then you probably unlink all those domains, they disappear from first top ten results soon and all torrent, file lockers and tubes are still there. WTF?
They would rather prefer to have torrent, file lockers and tubes there then affiliate sites. WTF once again?

Why the b&b, do you make profit?

It's GFY, yes I get there are trolls, but indeed, a conversation should be possible in a forum

No. For them is even infringmenent, if you have similar site names like theirs and you are exclusively promoting only their stuff on it.
Thats from what I heard from two of my friends.
They would rather probably have tens of torrents, tubes and filelockers in SERP results then their own affiliates.

sell it for way more than that...
for 2 months payout, you might as well just try to bargain, and if they don't go for it, just promote somebody else Fetish sites.

isn't "kink" a reg noun anyway? meaning it's in the dictionary, not like Reebok or Xbox...

well i am not disputing that some of these programs, whom run affiliate programs, could see a similar domain as infringement.

However, that doesn't really answer if it's not only morally just, but contains any business sense at all, threatening to sue an affiliate for trying to promote the program.

If the 'similar domain' is promoting competitors, that's infringement. If it's promoting the 'original program', how in the world is that infringement?

one must accept all of Gods Creatures..

We also allow it with some rules.

Really in the long run its win win.

The funny thing is, you really *are* this stupid. It's not an act.

I have the same problem AD, I am BigStefan from the other place :D My story is somehow special...

They want to let go my account and domains and basically open another account doing almost the same ( the legal team told me that I have to forfait all the account and all the domains for 20k dollars + 10k after 6 months, while the other support was telling me that if I do that I can open another account doing basically the same, only that they will own one of the domains I will use ). Most of the domains used are not related to their domains ( at least the big ones KALABUNGA :D), and they are free of copyright, and everything I do was discussed with their support a long time ago, which it seems to find it hard to remember. The account is 6 figures, and there is no way their support hasn;t seen it given the size and the multiple discussions on icq and emails with them. Everything went fine till I asked them to split payments to paxum and wire cause paxum has a 10k limit for credit cards, when suddenly I was contacted by their legal support.

I also have the proof of the fact that I was given active support for doing my job with them. I am waitting for some lawyers to clear the issue for me, I am at the first attorney, whom I trust since he was recommended by some people with similar problems in the past ( I will take one attorney at a time, till one will tell me that we can nail them - I am doing this because the first or second who knows, might be tempted by a behind doors deal with their support ), and before Christmas if things are not settled I am changing all the content, most of it is already prepared, and I will wish them a happy marry xmas. In hell.

i wonder why everyone just ignore every post you make