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Aff has exclusive deal with Zango ?
I spoke to my zango rep today and was informed that Adultfriendfinder will not let anyone bid on their domains and keywords.
Apparently lars found a solution to his problem of sexsearch intercepting his traffic. Adultfriendfinder must have made a deal with zango that prevents anyone from targeting their domains, well except for them from what i see. I am going to contact the FTC tomorrow. I am not sure but if this is true i do not think this is legal. Zango's site is based off of people bidding on search terms. I do not think it is legal for them to allow Aff to have a monopoly on those domains and keywords. If Aff has their domains locked up no one can intercept there traffic. So why do they continue to use an affiliate id in their zango pop up pages? I don't understand. Why intercept traffic from your affiliates and then say you are giving it back in raised payouts? Why don't you just drop the affiliate id and not intercept traffic in the first place if you don't have to. When you pop up cams.com over one of your Aff affiliate's urls, why not pop up an Aff page with no affiliate ID? This way everyone gets credit for their sales like they are suppose to. lars please come explain to us why you will not do this. Did you make a deal with Zango, no one else can bid on your domains? If so why do you still take sales from your affiliates ? Who else would be sending traffic to adultfriendfinder.com ? only your affiliates would, so why do you use your own affiliate id in the url? I was also told that I can not send zango traffic to my own adultfriendfinder page. That's right. Aff doesn't allow their affiliates to use zango, seems to me they locked it up all for themselves. This is another issue I think the FTC will be interested in finding out about. Also Lars, why are you still targeting other sites like sexsearch now if they can't intercept your traffic. Why are you continuing to intercept everyone else's traffic? Perhaps this is why you wont let your affiliates use zango. I was told by a zango rep that I can not send any zango traffic to an Aff page. I guess Aff wants to make sure their affiliates don't compete with them for other people's traffic. Why would Aff want to give an affiliate commission to you if you are using zango when they would rather cut your out of the picture and make the zango sales to everyone else's sites 100% for themselves. Cliff notes. Aff made possible deal with zango and locked up their domains, no one else can bid on their urls. Aff will not allow any of their affiliates to buy traffic on zango. They still target everyone else's traffic and wont even allow their own affiliates to use zango and compete with them. When you see any Aff zango ad it is from Aff and not one of their affiliates. Aff is in bed with zango more then ever now from what i see. There is no way they are going to stop. To me they just locked it up so no one else can touch it. Monopoly ? I will let the FTC decide this.
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Under this situation, it is clear that AFF is paying a form of blackmail or ransom to Zango to keep it's customers - with the side benefit of being able to take sales from their affiliates on the way by.
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Your zango rep? You use zango?
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I havent got to use it yet lol. Been trying to send it to aff to see what kind of profit they making. But as stated above looks like thats not gonna happen.
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I stapose so....
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Seems to me that it is a trademark violation (if you have a trademark) anyhow. Zango is profiting off of someone elses name (domain name).
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why isnt it legal? AFF has an exclusitivity contract with me also.
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Nice Keywords!! Thanks for the suggestion Zango. I am kinda surprised that AFF locked up their urls. I thought when Lars said they were looking for a solution it was to stop using zango from using their urls not to make a deal with them so no one else could use their urls AND for them to continue using them themselves (taking from their affiliates). This doesn't help their affiliates at all. I also don't think it is fair that he can target ifriends with AFF shit but ifriends can't target him. Seens like some type of ftc violation to me.
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If you have a zango ADVERTISER account, then you should know better than any of us how it works and how it's done. Care to share? Missie
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I still think Zango is playing with peoples trademarks though. I don't see how they can possibly make money off of peoples "domain names". |
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I don't not the laws behind all of this but it seems fishy to me and I would not be surprised if they are breaking some type of rules.
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It's not true at all. We do not have an exclusivity deal with Zango.
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xxx d*sney cartoons xxx d*isney free xxx d*isney i could go on but im sure you get the point
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So basically zango should through their bid system out of the window and force all sites to lock up exclusive deals on their own domains. I am sure zango would love this. Nice trend you started there AFF. I don't get the part why AFF wont let other AFF affiliates use zango.
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I go to AFF i get cams.com popup. I go to Cams.com I get AFF pop up. I go to Alt.com I get passion.com popup. I don't get sexsearch or any other popups for your domains so what tampa is saying looks like it is true from my end. Tampa why don't rely what Sagi said and see if they will lift that ban for you. ![]()
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Tampa, you have ICQ?
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You know Sagi i dont know wtf to belive anymore. You yourself have been good to me over the years and for that i am greatful. But now man this whole fuckin zango thing is just a big mess. You got people on both side of the fences with the issue. I do not understand why you guys continue to use this shit when your own afilliates are bitching about this. I wish you guys would seriously take a look at the big picture here. This will be my last thread about the whole zango issue. From this point on i will doing shit behind the scenes to fight this problem. I understand what you are doing is legal but is it right?
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Like we have stated before we are buying on our domain names to prevent competition from dueing so. It bears repeating that we pop Cams.com on AFF and AFF on Cams.com. |
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You know man who says all these companys aint frign doing this. Thats it im done i will just send traffic to my own shit for now on.
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Have you guys looked into solving this problem in anyway? I mean since your name is trademarked this should be a open and shut case. You guys got the financial means to do something big here.
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I don't know where that is coming from. This may be a decision that Zango made on their end to only work with us directly. As far as I know no one from inside the FF offices has instructed them to not work with our affiliates.
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Yes it's ongoing. If we can prevent bidding on our domains that would be optimal.
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if its true they must do alot of business with them to have that kind of weight
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not really. Say I promoted AFF and I wanted to buy zango traffic and target say sex.com. I wouldn't be stealing from AFF I would be making them more money. Why wouldn't they let me do this (according to what tampatoker posted).
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2. Why do you buy other people's domains. I am sure you noticed by now ![]() ![]() 3. How are you protecting your domain when you are not the high bidder. If you don't have an exclusive deal then you really can't protect your domain, right ?
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So what the fuck is that all about. It is ok for you guys to take a while to find a solution but Clickcash should have it solved by now ??? ![]() Nothing you can do to protect your trademark. Make 100+ million dollars a year and your team of lawyers can't use google? Hotel operator Six Continents charges the controversial ad company with trademark infringement for serving pop-up ads over its hotel Web sites. http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=1501721#Scene_1 Quote:
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If you ABSOLUTELY want to target them, there are plenty of other adware applications out there that will gladly allow you to do so. You might even get MORE than 20 million infected surfers. ![]() Missie
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All I See on zango now is their shit. Its in the tool bars, i would say 80% of all the adult sites are theirs, and 100% of their domains are their popups from what I have seen checking the last couple hours.
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See something is wrong here. You care to do a threeway call with me and my rep. I wanna clear this up. If i am wrong i will admit it . But like i said i been told 2 times now that you guys dont allow this. As matter of fact im gonna go bid on the url sexsearch.com again right now and have the popup go to my adultfriendfinder url and see what happens tommorw
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i smoke rocks
but i dont do business with zango crack heads > zango heads
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Looking forward to hearing how your 3way call with Sagi and Zango will go tomorrow. Great way to get to the bottom of it ![]() What time is the call ?
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I'd totally agree with AFF blocking their keywords on zango so long as they arn't buying it themself - that would prevent a free market. I could not see them doing that.
AFF makig a deal with zango to block their keywords would be EXACLY what everyone on here is asking for! so maybe wait a day or too and see what happens. I have faith is AFF doing the right thing here. I say wait a day or two simply cause it may take that long for zango up to update all their systems. don't be so quick to judge - do it based on FACTS
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also did anyone NOTICE that tampatoker has a ZANGO REP?
means he DEALS with zango
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