The ICM registry has just acquired the domain name DotXXX.com within the last week and it now redirects to their official site ICMRegistry.com The ICM registry paid $25,000 for the domain that was formerly owned by someone in Korea. The domain will be used in all future advertising for the registry. The registry which has already hired the global advertising and marketing firm of M&C … [Read more...]
.XXX Pushed Off Until Colombia ICANN Meeting In December
The ICANN board had a meeting yesterday and the question of the day was would ICANN grant final approval and sign the contract with .XXX. The answer is no. In a resolution that should be posted on its site today, ICANN resolved to send the matter back to the Governmental Advisory Committee for its opinion on the contract based ona few points that will be detailed in the … [Read more...]
ICM Registry “Very Happy” With ICANN’s Board Resolutions & Expects Quick Approval For .XXX
After I read DomainNameWire.com coverage of the ICANN resolution on the .XXX Extension and the very negative comments that followed the post, I reached out to Stuart Lawley, CEO of the ICM registry. In Andrew's post here stated: ""It may not be a quick process, and a new can of worms will be opened allowing for another comment period on the actual registry contract." However Mr Lawley, … [Read more...]
Business Week Covers .XXX: “The Man Who Would Be The Dot-XXX King”
Bloomberg/BusinessWeek just published a story about the tentative approval of .XXX by ICANN and the CEO of the ICM registry, Stuart Lawley entitled "The Man Who Would Be The Dot-XXX King". You will have to read the whole story which you can find here, but here are a couple of the more interesting points; Mr. Lawley is a very wealthy guy. According to the article he was named by the London … [Read more...]
How Much Is XXX.Com Worth Now? We Are About To Find Out, As It Hits The Auction Block At DomainFest
Certainly nothing has been in the domain news, even the general news much more in the past few days than the tenative approval of the .XXX extension by ICANN. Beyond the ICM registry who owns the .XXX TLD, the biggest other beneficiary very well maybe the owner of XXX.com. Now you will have the chance to be that guy, the owner of XXX.com because that domain is hitting the auction block at … [Read more...]
.XXX Lawley & Godaddy’s Parsons On Fox Business Channel Tonight As Domains Take The Spotlight
I learned that both Stuart Lawley from the ICM Registry, who got tentative approval for .XXX last week and none other than Bob Parsons from Godaddy.com will be on the same program tonight on the Fox Business Channel at 8PM EST. They both will appearing separately on a new program called "Money Rocks" Fox Business Channel can be seen on channel 359 on Directv and I assume many cable networks … [Read more...]
All Major Media Outlets Got It Wrong, .XXX Isn’t Just For Porn Sites
I saw literally hundreds of articles today on the conditional passage of the .xxx extension by ICANN and everyone seemed to miss a very important point. .XXX isn't just for adult content. Sure the intent of the extension if for porn sites to use .XXX domains, but in fact there is nothing that requires any site using a .XXX extension to displaying porn. So you certainly could sell cars … [Read more...]