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Originally Posted by InfoGuy
Trademark law is supposed to prevent competitors from tarnishing or diluting the owner's trademark rights. There's nothing wrong with a company licensing rights to affiliates or franchises. McDonald's allows thousands of franchised restaurants to use their trademark legitimately, without fear of losing or weakening their mark.
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I completely agree
I had an affiliate do the same thing. No work involved other than paying the domain registration fee and forwarding the mistype to my site, with his affiliate cookie of course.
I'm not employed by MindGeek so I'm going to disclose very little here. Someone there didn't do their research or they would have UDRP'd the more closely related domains that he owns. One was purchased a year after Brazzers went live. One forwards to Brazers.com which obviously forwards to Brazzers.com. Another domain closer to Brazzers goes directly to a virus now, another to cam sites, another went to Bang Bros. etc. etc.
So MindGeek, get more brains. You now know registrations were done by him AFTER you went live online, as well as before, with even more similar domains, and now at least one forwarding to a virus site, damaging your brand.
Feel free to thank me anyone who uses the info, publishes it on their blog, or follows my breadcrumbs to learn what I already know.
One thing I learned after busting my ass for days to find, and publish on GFY,
the Acacia Prior Art that sunk their ship in 2003, people take the info, maybe say thanks, it saved them God knows how much money, and I never saw a dime or got offered a job or partnerships, or free advertising. The only person that showed concrete appreciation was Paul Markham. He gave me $1,500 of free content of my choosing from his store. I'll never forget that.
From that I've learned I'd rather just get paid.