{"id":255362,"date":"2026-01-24T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/255362\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T13:00:08","slug":"slipknot-move-to-dismiss-suit-against-slipknot-com-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/255362\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot Move to Dismiss Suit Against Slipknot.com Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSlipknot<\/a>, the band, have dismissed a lawsuit they filed against the owner of Slipknot.com<\/a>, a website not affiliated with the band that they claimed had been selling bootleg merch. Lawyers for the group, aka Slipknot, Inc., said the group \u201cvoluntarily dismisses this action without prejudice\u201d in paperwork, obtained by Rolling Stone, filed Wednesday. The band had accused the domain owner, who is anonymous, of \u201ccybersquatting.\u201d By dismissing \u201cwithout prejudice,\u201d the band could revive the suit in the future.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe group had filed the suit \u201cin rem,\u201d meaning the action was against the domain name itself as opposed to whoever registered it in 2001. Domain Name Wire<\/a> reports that domain owners often don\u2019t appear in court to defend domains with \u201cin rem\u201d suits.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in November, lawyer Jeffrey Neuman, filed a notice on behalf of the owner, listed as Slipknot Online Services, Ltd., according to Domain Name Wire<\/a>, claiming that the company had been unaware of the suit. The company, Neuman said, had owned the domain for the previous 24 years. The owner registered it in February 2001 and is still anonymous; the site is linked to a post office box in the Grand Caymans.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn January, the company\u2019s lawyer filed a motion to dismiss, claiming the band, which released its first record in 1999, waited too long to sue. Then on Wednesday, Slipknot\u2019s lawyers filed their own dismissal.<\/p>\n

\n\tReps for Slipknot, whose website remains Slipknot1.com, declined to comment on the news. Lawyers for Slipknot Online Services, Ltd. did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn October, the band alleged in its filing that Slipknot.com had begun selling \u201ccheap promo products\u201d and \u201ccostume masks,\u201d unofficial merch, that it felt was cheating fans. The group cited the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in its suit.<\/p>\n

\n\t\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 the band claimed.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAt the time of publication, Slipknot.com remains functional, though with no content on it. \u201cNo valid delivery channels available for this domain,\u201d reads a message on the website. It\u2019s copyrighted 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tSlipknot1.com is also active, though the band doesn\u2019t have any current tour dates planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slipknot, the band, have dismissed a lawsuit they filed against the owner of Slipknot.com, a website not affiliated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,57785],"class_list":{"0":"post-255362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-slipknot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}