.BIZ was another early TLD to chip away at the IANA Cartel.

.XXX may help to restore the need for ISPs to have a clue. They may have to
make some decisions.

Consumers may now also become more aware and decide on a TLD-by-TLD
basis what they allow.

The 1984 Orwellian Big Brother IANA Cartel wants to make those decisions.
They are terrified of free markets and anyone other than their cozy I* society
clique from making decisions.

.XXX comes at a time when the IANA Cartel is on the ropes. The IANA Cartel
is tossing hot potatoes from one member to another. Social networking is now
helping to expose their lack of social networking, their smoke-filled back rooms.

.XXX should not underestimate the IANA Cartel’s ability to control the .NET.
It Seeks Overall Control.

Follow the money…it tells the whole (real) story…

It’s on the front page of cnn on the right after the fold, just a quick poll

83% in favor

197638

No

17%

40492

Total votes: 238130

Can’t believe they have more people taking their poll

LOL

Some observations:
1) there is no requirement to post adult entertainment on the .xxx websites, that is the registrants choice, however,

2) in order to be able to register resolving names, the registrant has to be a member of our sponsored community. Please see the draft contract for full definition

3) non members of sponsored community can apply during the start up period to effectively remove their trademarks for ever being registered for a reasonable one time fee. We believe this launch will be the most friendly to the large non adult industry IP holders. Pay a reasonable fee once and forget about it thereafter.

4) pre-reservations have gone crazy since the announcement with over 23,500 received on Friday alone, now standing at circa 135,000

5) when the community see our full range of plans for .xxx including proprietary payments systems and age verification methods with ICM as the ‘trusted clearing house” we genuinely believe that, over time, .xxx will become the PREFERRED TLD of choice for the adult industry.

Many thanks for all of your comments

I wanted to point out what no one else did is that this extension is not just for porn.

Like all opened extensions there is no requirement of the use of the domain for porn.

I do think you will see all non adult categories quickly registered by someone, not by me.

Personally we will be doing a bunch of defensive registrations for our adult .com’s and like any other extension, that we think have staying power, we will try to get some key properties if we can at a reasonable price.

Sure a domainer will reg Cars.xxx but not Ford, Mercedes or Rolls Royce. Like someone else said the blocking software will be out big time for .xxx.

Then there is the stigma that you were looking at a .xxx maybe at work or at home. You can get around twistys.com someone may not know and its a .com. But if you are found looking at a .xxx someone right away will think “pervert”

The area to focus on in adult imo is cam. That will never be free because its real people and real interaction. The rest well, anyone paying for porn is just clueless unless its a niche fetish or a stars own site that does exclusive content for their fans.

Mike it seems to me reading this article I get the feeling you like .xxx will you be regging a lot of names ?

But will it succeed for the owners, speculators and operators of .xxx domains? That’s the big question. Like I said I’m sure whoever gets porn.xxx, and all the other ultra premiums will find a way to monetize some dollars or just for traffic redirects. But for the thousands of dreamers who reg thebestporn.xxx and those kind of domains, good luck.

And no adult domain owner in their right mind will take the risk of shifting their .com brand traffic to any other TLD. Plus we haven’t even touched on the effect all the blocking software will have on traffic. Every corporation, many conservative countries and most families with kids will block this TLD.