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Is it okay for affiliates to use your trademarks when buying domains or bidding via PPC?
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xhttp://www.absolutepokerrakeback.com/
xhttp://www.ultimatebetrakeback.com/I see some unscrupulous affils are stealing and using everyone’s trademarks [eg. betfair, everleaf] with seeming impunity. not legal, not fair on legit affils, and pretty disgusting imo.
We dont condone domain purchasing that conflicts with our company. For those out there… we do adress legally.
@Marcela 204073 wrote:
We dont condone domain purchasing that conflicts with our company. For those out there… we do adress legally.
you will be seizing the following domains no doubt then:
xhttp://www.absolutepokerrakeback.com/
xhttp://www.ultimatebetrakeback.com/WHOIS information for absolutepokerrakeback.com :
Registrant:
Armchair Gaming LTDDomain name: ABSOLUTEPOKERRAKEBACK.COM
Domain name: ULTIMATEBETRAKEBACK.COM
looks like 1 is owned by these guys
WHOIS information for raketherake.com :Alex, I am sorry I have to edit out personal addresses and phones and emails.
If this were an affiliate stealing content from other affiliates or some such thing, I wouldn’t.
But this is between the company and the affiliate and it is not necessary for the community to know personal addresses, phones and mail. You are welcome to PM Chipleader the details, but the rule about preserving affiliate privacy still applies here.
Too many loons out there who gather info from messageboards to harass people.
Feel free in future though to publish whois about content thieves and blackhatters and any such things that concern all of us.
Thanks for understanding. :hattip:
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I don’t understand the edit.
that info is publicly available via http://www.whois.net/I think even though its publically availaible a lot of “nutters” aren’t clever or logical enough to find it – the guy from RTR is cool with you PM’ing the affiliate manager or even posting it here its just the contact details which I can understand when you have a family etc and there unfortunately some oddities out there :3eyes: who are simply unbalanced
@alexross 204178 wrote:
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I don’t understand the edit.
that info is publicly available via http://www.whois.net/Yeah I know and it’s kinda borderline with whois, but the more often an address or phone etc is published on the web the more likely it is to be picked up by some weirdo or scraped and killed with spam etc. But then again, publishing whois can be effective to out someone hiding in the shadows and as such is a good tool. So I think we should do this on a “need to know” basis.
I still think thieves should be named and shamed. In this case though he didn’t steal from us but infringed on a program he works with – so it’s their call to name and shame, not ours. If Chipleader wants to publish his details, it’s their prerogative IMO.
@Dominique 204198 wrote:
I still think thieves should be named and shamed. In this case though he didn’t steal from us but infringed on a program he works with – so it’s their call to name and shame, not ours. If Chipleader wants to publish his details, it’s their prerogative IMO.
Quite the opposite, this guy has been SCREWING LEGIT AFFILIATES by infringing copyright, TM’s etc to gain an unfair and ILLEGAL edge.
It’s our jo
