Slipknot says a cyber-squatter has been using the URL slipknot.com to advertise counterfeit merchandise for more than two decades — and the heavy metal band is now waging a legal battle in pursuit of the domain name.

A federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday (Oct. 15) alleges that an anonymous web operator has held the domain slipknot.com since 2001. Unable to use this domain for Slipknot’s official website, the famously masked metal band hosts its store on the clunkier URL slipknot1.com.

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Little is known about the slipknot.com cyber-squatter, other than the

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