{"id":435681,"date":"2026-01-25T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435681\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:44:10","slug":"slipknot-drop-cybersquatting-lawsuit-against-slipknot-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/435681\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot drop cybersquatting lawsuit against Slipknot.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slipknot<\/a> have dropped their lawsuit against an alleged cyber-squatter, who they previously claimed was using the \u2018slipknot.com\u2019 domain.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0Clown talks Slipknot\u2019s 25th anniversary tour and future: \u201cWe probably have several albums in us right now\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The suit was originally filed back in October under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act 1999, with the band originally seeking ownership of the site, as well as unspecified damages.<\/p>\n

As of January 22, however, the band has voluntarily dismissed the legal action, per Metal Injection<\/a>.\u00a0Slipknot have not yet commented on the lawsuit dismissal.<\/p>\n

As reported by\u00a0Billboard<\/a> at the time, the band filed a federal lawsuit in October, in which they alleged that an anonymous individual had been in control of the URL since 2001 and had been using it to advertise counterfeit merchandise for the band.<\/p>\n

The band claimed that they have been unable to use the domain in the intervening years and have instead hosted their online store at slipknot1.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Slipknot\u2019s lawyer Craig Reilly said at the time: \u201cThe domain name was registered in an effort to profit off of plaintiff\u2019s goodwill and to trick unsuspecting visitors \u2013 under the impression they are visiting a website owned, operated or affiliated with plaintiff \u2013 into clicking on web searches and other sponsored links.\u201d<\/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 Reilly added.<\/p>\n

Billboard<\/a> noted that the cyber-squatter remains anonymous, but they do own a post office box in the Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In other news, the band\u2019s percussionist, Clown, recently said they hope to release their long-delayed \u201clost\u201d album \u2018Look Outside Your Window\u2019, this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The album was recorded by Clown (real name is Shaun Crahan),\u00a0Corey Taylor<\/a>, Sid Wilson and Jim Root at the same time as they were working on 2008\u2019s \u2018All Hope Is Gone\u2019. To date, only one track from the sessions has been released \u2013 the \u2018All Hope Is Gone\u2019 bonus track \u2018Til We Die\u2019, which often plays over the PA at the end of their shows.<\/p>\n

They have teased the eventual release of the album since 2019, when\u00a0Crahan said that the band were readying the release<\/a>, with Taylor later adding that he \u201ctried like hell to make those worlds come together\u201d<\/a>\u00a0to complete the project. Meanwhile, Root has mentioned that\u00a0he has threatened to leak it on multiple occasions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0speaking to\u00a0NME\u00a0in 2020<\/a>, Crahan revealed the band almost dropped it over Christmas 2019 but ultimately decided against it because they didn\u2019t want it to interfere with sixth studio album \u2018We Are Not Your Kind<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n

Both Crahan and Taylor have said that \u2018Look Outside Your Window\u2019 doesn\u2019t sound like a usual Slipknot record<\/a>, and have gone as far as to compare the songs to Radiohead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0Slipknot are also working on new music<\/a>, according to their recently recruited drummer Eloy Casagrande.<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0Drummer\u2019s Review, he said: \u201cWe are cooking, we are doing some new music, for sure\u201d. While he didn\u2019t give any specific details, he added: \u201cSince I joined the band, we have been working on some new ideas. We keep exchanging guitar riffs, drum beats, so we are always doing something. We had also some jam sessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we have a lot of material right now. We just have to sit and put everything together, start jamming, and it\u2019s happening. It already happened. It\u2019s gonna happen in the future. So new material is coming, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slipknot have dropped their lawsuit against an alleged cyber-squatter, who they previously claimed was using the \u2018slipknot.com\u2019 domain.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,3088,136,1771],"class_list":{"0":"post-435681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-metal","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}