This past weekend I took a quick trip down to Key West Florida to see the .XXX race boat the Miss .XXX race in the World Championship. While the weekend was capped off with the .XXX boat winning there class in a thrilling final World Championship race, but they had mechanical problems in the 2 earlier qualifying races in the week and lost on points. Yet and way more importantly, the whole … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: How Many Land Rush Apps Will .XXX Get
The Land Rush for .XXX opened yesterday allowing you to order your .XXX domain at a premium price before General Availability begins in December. So the question is how many Land Rush Apps will be submitted for a .XXX domain name? The Sunrise period of .XXX generated over 80,000 Applications. For the record the last ccTLD launch of .Co generates less than 20K Sunrise apps. Land Rush in … [Read more...]
With 5 Days Left In Sunrise, .XXX Reports Over 42,000 Applications Taken
ICM Registry, the company behind the .XXX top-level domain (TLD), today announced it has received has received over 42,000 applications for .XXX domain names since the September 7, 2011 launch of the Sunrise Period "with thousands more pouring in each day". The number of applications already received is over five times what ICM had anticipated. “We are very pleased, but not surprised, by … [Read more...]
DomainMonster.com 25,000 Pre-orders For .XXX General Availability Already
DomainMonster an ICANN accredited registrar in a press release today say it has already taken 25,000 pre-orders for .XXX domain names when they become available for registration to the public. Since DomainMonster is just one of over 70 domain name registrars that are selling .XXX domains, its a pretty impressive number especially considering the rollout of the .XXX registry is still in Sunrise … [Read more...]
SheMales.XXX Sells For $200,000; 3 1/2 Times More Than The .Net Sold For
Stuart Lawley the CEO of the ICM Registry just announced at the TRAFFIC conference that it has just sold the domain name SheMales.XXX for $200,000 Shemales.XXX is an impressive sale because there are other reported sales in the last few years in other extensions. Back in 2007 Moniker.com sold SheMale.com for $530,000 at an the Internext Adult Domain Name Auction. So a .XXX just sold for … [Read more...]
1st Hands On Pics and Video of the .XXX Racing Boat
I'm here at the 15th Street Marina in Fort Lauderdale to get a hands on look at the .XXX racing boat, which is about to make it's maiden voyage. It's pretty windy out today with the water conditions being described as gnarly by mike Schriefer President of the Speedway Group. … [Read more...]
Gay.Co Sells For $25K As HuntingMoon.com Adult Domain Auction Nets $148K
The Huntingmoon.com organizers just released the results of the adult domain name auction they held last week. In all $148,274 of domain names sold, led by Matures.com for $30K and Gay.Co for $25,000 Gay.co is an interesting sale since Gay.XXX just sold last week for $500,000. That means the .XXX version sold for 20X as much as the .co in the same week. Like I said … [Read more...]