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.XXX is Added To The Root & Is Live

April 16, 2011 by Michael Berkens

The .XXX extension has been added to the root and is now live.

Domains like sex.xxx,  xxx.xxx porn.xxx and ICM.xxx are resolving.

ICM is the registry that ICANN signed a contract last week to operate the .XXX registry.

Not all domains ending in .xxx are resolving so the registry did not wild card the extension.

The Sunrise period which will be the 1st of several periods including Landrush and general availability are expected to start sometime in September 2011.

 

Filed Under: .XXX

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. elevator says

    April 16, 2011 at 1:51 pm

    It is a new development and nice idea. It is also a new avenue for newbies to get a domain of their choice. Cheers.

  2. Sat3D.TV + Satellite3D.TV + Fast3D.TV + Retina3D.TV says

    April 16, 2011 at 2:14 pm

    very “HARD” to find a good .XXX domain 🙂

    the best are those listed in the post + se.xxx

  3. .ME of course! says

    April 16, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    xxx.xxx is as long as xxxx.me

  4. Steve M says

    April 16, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    Here’s the latest from the L.A.Times on the Playboy illness:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_en_ot/us_playboy_mansion_health_probe

  5. com says

    April 16, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    the .xxx domains are too expensive to be sold in high number

  6. ::: Domainers Gate ::: says

    April 17, 2011 at 7:35 am

    these domains should be much cheaper to sell more

  7. meaning says

    April 17, 2011 at 11:31 pm

    personally, i would be happy to see this tld get used for non-pornographic purposes. as someone said, it’s a chance to register the names people really want but which are already taken in com/net/org.

    it would be yet more proof that “meaning” is quite flexible. (.co anyone?) xxx does not always mean x-rated. xxx could evolve to mean anything users want it to mean. you can’t control how people use technology. (of course microsoft and a million windows programmers would no doubt strongly disagree.)

    most internet users probably have no idea “.com” was intended to mean “commercial”. or that “.net” means “network”. or that “.int” even exists. a tld means whatever users want it to mean. or it means nothing. it’s a string of characters they type to get to an http server listening at an ip address. for that purpose meaning is irrelevant. it’s a method. one that is presumed to be easier than another way to reach any given server, which pre-dates domain names.

    more important than meaning is being easy to type and easy to remember. huge online businesses have been built behind country-code tlds repurposed to mean something other than their intended meaning. (.tv was never intended to mean television.) meaning is not fixed. it can be changed.

    there’s heaps of pornography in the .com, .net and now even the .org tlds but that doesn’t mean businesses will shy away from them.

    honestly the whole thing seems very presumptuous (for the reasons outlined above), maybe even naive. imo.

    but then we all have our own visions of how the internet should work. i’m impressed that the man behind .xxx was able to push it through icann. no small feat getting into the root zone, historically- a bureaucratic nightmare. best of luck to xxx. certainly easier to type than .info

  8. STOP ICANN says

    August 20, 2011 at 11:03 am

    ICANN has a license to print money and a license to allow their goons, the registrars, to collect the money. What’s next .sex .tit .nip .ass .jrk .clt? It’s absolutely asinine, ridiculous and absurd.

    http://www.sports.sex
    sex.sports.www
    sports.www.sex
    xxx.jobs.com
    com.xxx.jobs
    jobs.com.xxx

    The internet is now an absolute disorganized MESS thanks to ICANT – I can’t protect my trademark without paying EXTORTION money, I can’t eat this week because I paid a huge sum of money to register .xxx . crap .screwicann this week to protect my trademark etc. Not to mention .CO which is a substring of .COM – what’s next .XX (instead of .xxx) or .BI (instead of .biz) or .T (instead of .TV) – just asinine. HEY – forgot about .CM (short for .com). The bastard organization called ICANT has made an utter mess out of the internet. Get a clue.

  9. Tomtom says

    February 12, 2017 at 3:40 pm

    nice exp for new extension this define the industry to SEX domains


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