{"id":1698052,"date":"2026-01-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1698052"},"modified":"2026-01-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:00:00","slug":"slipknot-is-no-longer-suing-the-owners-of-slipknot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1698052","title":{"rendered":"SLIPKNOT Is No Longer Suing The Owners Of Slipknot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\">\n<div id=\"4314\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Slipknot<\/strong> has voluntarily dismissed their patent infringement lawsuit against the Slipknot.com domain. The band originally filed the lawsuit under the federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and trademark infringement in October 2025, and is now dismissing the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s claims cited trademark infringement and alleged that the domain, registered in 2001, was being used to profit off the band&#8217;s name through pay-per-click links for concert tickets, merchandise, and VIP packages.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit argued that visitors seeking official <strong>Slipknot<\/strong> content could be misled into believing the domain was affiliated with the band, potentially causing financial damages. However, the domain owner&#8217;s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss, noting that <strong>Slipknot<\/strong> failed to properly serve the registrant within the court&#8217;s timeline. <strong>Slipknot<\/strong> subsequently filed a notice of voluntary dismissal, which was done without prejudice, meaning the band could potentially revive the claims in the future.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the filing, <strong>Slipknot<\/strong>&#8216;s lawyers wrote in the lawsuit: &#8220;The domain name was registered in an effort to profit off of plaintiff\u2019s goodwill and to trick unsuspecting visitors \u2014 under the impression they are visiting a website owned, operated or affiliated with plaintiff \u2014 into clicking on web searches and other sponsored links.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A fan of plaintiff or someone who otherwise wanted to purchase authorized <strong>Slipknot<\/strong> merchandise would undoubtedly visit the slipknot.com website assuming it belonged to plaintiff and then purchase the <strong>Slipknot<\/strong> merchandise linked to on the site, causing damages to plaintiff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zox-post-body left zoxrel zox100\"><strong>Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enter your information below to get a daily update with all of our headlines and receive The Orchard Metal newsletter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-newsletter-form\">\n<fieldset>\n<p><button id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\" class=\"submit\" name=\"subscribe\" type=\"submit\">Subscribe<\/button><\/p>\n<\/fieldset>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Source URL: https:\/\/metalinjection.net\/news\/slipknot-is-no-longer-suing-the-owners-of-slipknot-com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slipknot has voluntarily dismissed their patent infringement lawsuit against the Slipknot.com domain. The band originally filed the lawsuit under the federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and trademark infringement in October 2025, and is now dismissing the whole thing. The band&#8217;s claims cited trademark infringement and alleged that the domain, registered in 2001, was being used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,55],"class_list":["post-1698052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-metalinjection-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1698052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1698052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1698052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1698052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}