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 two websites have co-existed since 2001, the fact that Slipknot.com has been routing wayward fans to links for “Cheap Promo Products” and “Costume Masks” — knockoffs of the merch and masks the band actually sells — necessitated the lawsuit.

The band filed the lawsuit, obtained by Domain Name Wire , into a Virginia federal court earlier this week under the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. The identity of the Slipknot .co

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