Comments on: Business Week Covers .XXX: “The Man Who Would Be The Dot-XXX King”

By: Dirk

Dirk — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:05:19 +0000

@BreakingNewsBlog.us: The biggest opponent of the .xxx has been the adult industry. Remember, the ICM registry, the one proposing the whole .xxx idea, is not part of the adult industry.

By: MHB

MHB — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:29:13 +0000

I would say more than you think, especially if people start typing in the .xxx extension

By: BreakingNewsBlog.us

BreakingNewsBlog.us — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:00:21 +0000

how many non-porn sites will use the .xxx TLD?

By: BreakingNewsBlog.us

BreakingNewsBlog.us — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:14:03 +0000

poor future fot .xxx

too easy to block all the .xxx sites at provider level

By: tricolorro

tricolorro — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:59:54 +0000

“He must be dreaming if he thinks he can just walk in & take business away from adult providers’ existing processors”

Well if Mr.Lawley does succeed in offering “a payment business similar to PayPal for dot-xxx sites…” that could appeal to many, many users.

Remember one of the benefit’s PayPal offers to both Businesses and Consumers is that the actual credit card info is only known to PayPal.

This is good for the consumer.

Not having to comply with security and record keeping requirements for that credit card info is good for the Business.

By: rick

rick — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:37:20 +0000

Agreed.. Adult providers that I have talked to are just yawning over this. The only extensions that seem to have sticking power are .com, net, .org.

By: Aggro

Aggro — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:33:05 +0000

He must be dreaming if he thinks he can just walk in & take business away from adult providers’ existing processors (who they are already happy with)…a guy with no track record…who just happens to run the .xxx registry

Adult providers are against this whole .xxx idea in the 1st place.

Adult providers: “If it aint broke, why fix it”

By: Mike Jarvis

Mike Jarvis — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:43:16 +0000

Porn and credit card processing. What could go wrong with that??

By: owen@frager.us

owen@frager.us — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:06:49 +0000

Could be PayPal white label. That would be easy and the kind of strategy that’s been done for years.

But most subscribers are already on recurring programs with credit card and other providers.

I know a guy that does $2 million a month off a blogspot site releasing two short movies a week, shot and edited by him in his own home. I think a lot of the type in and search business has been lost to these home businesses that grew through word of mouth on social networks and movie reviews on hundreds of blogging affiliates.

Since the domain owners offer no content why not cut them out and license the domains direct to content providers with the payment gateway as a means to take a cut and to gather data to use to market additional subscriptions and offers? Why have 6% of 4 billion when you can have 75%.?

I think there will be hesitation from consumers. Who wants their boss or wife to find .xxx site visits in the history logs?

I also see big changes emerging. When you hook your PC up to your flat screen and can stream any movie from NetFlix or any other site how long will it take NetFlix or Comcast to figure out they have a conduit to a $4 billion market?

I wish him luck though.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:32 +0000

Removing payment barriers while protecting privacy could actually be a huge thing as credit cards have gotten so strict with processing adult.

I guess he’s rich b/c of ideas like this. Nice idea.