http://www.whois.sc/TAWNEESTONESOFFICIALSITE.com Domain is available :)

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Good one Steve. This is a huge pet peeve of mine. Worse yet, they have one reviewer do all sites in your niche, but then you get another person all together who hasn't reviewed the other sites your being rated against.... arghh

The adult industry has always been a case of everyone trying anything they can to make an extra buck out of it, so at the end of the day, hopefully, the I'm fucking you while you're fucking me, balances out.

1. if you have a valid REGISTERED trademark you don't have to spend a lot of time to get the domain, a simple 3 page wipo complaint can take that domain name away from offending webmaster.

However if you choose to not do the necessary whitepaper search (required since 2000) and lied about the validity of the trademark, they you don't have a shot in hell of getting the domain away from that person.

Then sponsors shouldn't have webmaster referal programs at all. If I can get a program 10 new webmasters, well isn't that what they want? If I signed up 10 strangers would I be just as entitled to that 10%? WTF is the difference?

Well first of all if it's a major violation of trademark there are legal remedies to that. If you are bitching about misspells of websites, well if someone is too lazy, cheap or just plain too stupid not to register common misspellings of their websites names that's their own fault.

This is wrong and the webmaster should have his account terminated. I'm sure if that sponsor cantacted the sponsor that webmaster was promoting they would terminate his account too.

Dont think he was being literal. Thus the quotation marks. The "mother" and "brother" were really the same guy you see. :helpme

Well since you have to have their SS # to "sign" them up well you are already comitting a federal felony. Even if they gave you permission THEY would be responsible for the taxes. Now how many family members are going to let you use thier SS #'s so you can sign up for fake accounts to sponsors program when they are going to have to pay more taxes?

You mean there's a whole lot of fucking going on in the fuckin' biz?

:winkwink:

liars, and twinks and bears, OH MY!

(sorry, just in one of those over caffinated moments)

When's your next party? :winkwink:

fitty...................... dirty little secrets:Graucho

well, thats not really an affiliate then is it???

thats a good point there.

might want to work that one into the terms and conditions, becuase thats low.

In fairness he also said he would review it at a later date (beginning of October I think). He did review it, opened it again and posted it, citing the freshness etc that new affiliates can bring to a program etc.

Now thats enough to get an affiiliate account yanked right there!!!
:) :2 cents: :thumbsup

Im not down with fucking people over..... are you saying i need to start, to balance it all out?? :upsidedow

IDIOT:321GFY You ever been off the rock??

I´m shocked that not a single affiliate have stepped forward to tell that he/she "does none of the things, which have been mentioned so far" like some sponsors did in the other thread ;-)))

i try to send traffic to everyone who has got me drunk at a convention :)

:1orglaugh Good point...and if they do now, i will sounds too fucking late :upsidedow

Probably most of them on here didn't even know that these ideas existed... :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

What about sponsors that allow some affiliates to do dirty little tricks that affect other affilates but the sponsor allows it because the affiliate doing the dirty little tricks makes the sponsor more money than the affilate that is trying to make an honest living? And then the sponsor has the cheek to post on a webmaster board talking about dirty tricks when he allows it for some but not others. I think that sponsors should look after all affiliates equally instead of different rules for some just because they make them more money, Remember if you didn't have affiliates you would not be where you are today, try treating them equal instead of being greedy and allowing different rules for an extra dollar. And affiliates that cheat maybe someone could make a database where all sponsors could add cheaters that have actually been caught cheating so they cant sign up for any programs
My :2 cents:

sorry but we don't take anyone seriously who is too chicken shit to post their real screennames.

Oh welcome to life. That's the way ALL businesses are run.

?????
Who does this?

Ok I'll ditto his comments. And whoever posted that should have the balls to sign their name to the comments!

My sites have been shit on in so many ways! I'd start listing them, but I'd only have more of the same.

I would've posted something like this myself, but I'd have done it in the other thread "Dirty Little Secrets of Affiliate Programs" :)

I've sent traffic to every sponsor that helped get me drunk!!!

Hoes.com came to mind when he made that post. I wonder if that's who he's talking about. Did they give Lightspeed a poor conversion ration on their sponsors page ? I love reading mb's updates each month.

Hey that's no fair, I only signed up my neighbor and brother.. you mean I can sign up my mother and uncle too?

I'm taking notes. "Dirty Little Secrets" usually means more money. :1orglaugh

Just because it is my first post doesn't mean I have posted under another nick, I have just never had anything to say in the past because I dont normally get involved in message boards, but thought this thread was interesting and made it my first post. I didn't mean to offend anyone, it was just my :2 cents:

Screw the database part. To much chance for abuse.

Then who are you? What do you do in the industry? Odd user name. Seems like it was selected for this thread!

Yes good point, I didn't think of that

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.)

I don't think Steve's statement was referring to Hoes.com sponsor list because then his statement would not be accurate as I don't understand how hoes could send different quality traffic to one sponsor over another.

I think Hoes list is great and I refer to that list myself when I need another sponsor for something. It's been right on the money.

I am just a nobody in the industry,all I do is build galleries and try and make an honest living. having said that I better do some work, and once again I am sorry if I offended anyone that is why I dont normally say anything.

How about affiliates listing all your 200+ hosted galleries in a row?