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Slipknot have filed a lawsuit against the anonymous owner of the Slipknot.com domain in an attempt to reclaim the website, which is currently used to sell counterfeit band merchandise.<\/p>\n
For nearly 25 years, the anonymous cyber-squatter has sat on the Slipknot URL, forcing the actual Slipknot to instead make Slipknot1.com<\/span> their official website. While the two websites have co-existed since 2001, the fact that Slipknot.com has been routing wayward fans to links for \u201cCheap Promo Products\u201d and \u201cCostume Masks\u201d \u2014 knockoffs of the merch and masks the band actually sells \u2014 necessitated the lawsuit.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n The band filed the lawsuit, obtained by Domain Name Wire<\/a>, into a Virginia federal court earlier this week under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. The identity of the Slipknot .com domain owner is still unknown, as the person \u2014 who purchased the domain in February 2001, two years after the group\u2019s debut album was released \u2014 is linked to the site by a post office box in the Grand Caymans.<\/p>\n \u201cThe 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,\u201d the band\u2019s lawyer Craig Reilly wrote in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n \u201cA fan of plaintiff or someone who otherwise wanted to purchase authorized Slipknot merchandise would undoubtedly visit the slipknot.com website assuming it belonged to plaintiff and then purchase the Slipknot merchandise linked to on the site, causing damages to plaintiff.\u201d<\/p>\n As of Saturday, the Slipknot.com\u00a0is still active, offering the bootlegged merch as well as \u201cImage Generative AI\u201d:<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slipknot have filed a lawsuit against the anonymous owner of the Slipknot.com domain in an attempt to reclaim the website, which is currently used to sell counterfeit band merchandise. For nearly 25 years, the anonymous cyber-squatter has sat on the Slipknot URL, forcing the actual Slipknot to instead make Slipknot1.com their official website. While the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2100447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[397046,343242,357287],"class_list":["post-2100446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-domain-name-wire","tag-official-website","tag-slipknot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Slipknot-Sue-to-Reclaim-Slipknotcom-Domain-From-Anonymous-Squatter-Selling.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100448,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100446\/revisions\/2100448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2100447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}