Slipknot is suing the anonymous owner of Slipknot.com:

The lawsuit claims slipknot.com hosts pay-for-click advertising that directs users to counterfeit Slipknot merchandise, including versions of the band’s signature masks, t-shirts and sweatshirts emblazoned with the band’s trademarks. These sponsored links hurt sales of official Slipknot merch, the band alleges.
via billboard.com

That’s wild. I didn’t even know there were digital squatter laws!

Cybersquatting occurs when a person other than the owner of a well-known trademark registers that trademark as an Internet domain name and then attempts to profit from it. This is done by either ransoming the domain name back to the trademark owner or by using the domain name to divert business from the trademark owner to the owner of the domain name.
via law.cornell.edu

The lawsuit almost makes it sound like they’re running a counterfeit merch site, but it looks like they’re just generic ads from one of those “park your domain here” pages:

Either way, they’re definitely profiting off the hope that a Slipknot fan goes there by mistake and clicks on something. I wonder if it’ll hold up in court though, being keyword based suggestions from some ad service rather than an actual online storefront full of knockoff Slipknot tees.

The biggest tragedy here is that the actual band has been forced to use Slipknot1.com as their official domain this whole time 😅