Tag Archives: icm registry

Thu 7th January 2016
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
.XXX releasing dual impression domain names - 2 letter domains have sold for up to $100,000 in other ICM Registry Extensions. ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain name extension, is releasing two character second level domain names. The names are now available at select registrars for a higher recurring annual fee. Prices start at about $3,000 per year retail. Two character domain names have proven very popular in ICM Registry’s other domain names, .sex, .adult and .porn. About half of the 500 premium domain names the ... read more ...
Mon 2nd November 2015
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This week's new domain name: Let's speak about .Sex - .Sex domain names become available on Wednesday. There’s only one new domain name entering general availability this week according to Calzone.org, but it’s a big one: .Sex. ICM Registry launches the domain name on Wednesday, November 4. You will be able to register .Sex domain names at registrars for about $75 per year. The domain name option will join ICM Registry’s existing line of similarly-themed domain names, including .XXX, .Adult and .Porn. Already, the .sex zone file has nearly 4,000 ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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Here comes .Sex - Trademark holders can now claim domain names ending in .sex. ICM Registry has started the sunrise for its latest adult-themed domain name, .sex. .Sex joins .xxx, .adult and .porn in the company’s stable of top level domain names. As with .adult and .porn, there will be a unique Sunrise B and Domain Matching period. The traditional sunrise is now underway and will end October 1. During this period, brand holders must have a mark registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse in order to claim a corresponding ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2015
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Watch Stuart Lawley urge .Porn and .Adult - The man behind .porn, .adult and .xxx is asked to defend his business model. ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg yesterday. Bloomberg’s Emily Chang asked him to defend the business model of selling .porn and .adult domain names. Doesn’t this force celebrities and brands to pay up to protect themselves? Lawley talked about how new top level domain names in general provide more choice for businesses. He also noted that brands also have to protect themselves in bricks-and-mortar businesses. ... read more ...
 
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.porn and .adult gTLD Domain Names Available Today - New gTLD domain names .porn and .adult become available for registration to the public today (6/4/2015) and there has been a lot of buzz around the two, simply because there often is around the adult industry. Last night, Stuart Lawley was on Bloomberg talking about .xxx, .porn and .adult that ICM Registry operate and you can watch that video here. About 6,900 .porn domains have been registered prior to public launch with the highest amount of domains being registered with CSC Corporate Domain registrar ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2015
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.Porn and .Adult domain names mangle morning records - Provocative domains, low pricing, marketing and promotion with Trademark Clearinghouse boost early numbers for new adult domains. ICM Registry announced today that its .Porn and .Adult domain names each received about 4,000 registrations during the sunrise trademark period. That’s more than any other new top level domain names to date. The strong interest was certainly fueled by the nature of the domains and news about Taylor Swift buying her name, but it went beyond that. ICM Registry offered ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2015
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.XXX registry releases Domain Check for code owners - Tool checks brand across more than just ICM Registry’s top level domain names. ICM Registry, the company behind .xxx and the forthcoming .porn and .adult domain names, has released an online tool for companies to check their brands across hundreds of new top level domain names. Domain Check, of course, provides status information related to ICM’s own top level domain names. But it also checks the domain name across many TLDs, providing launch phase and registration status. For example, here’s ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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.XXX modifies domain relating module for new adult TLDs - ICM Registry shortens window for claiming matching domain names due to ICANN requirements. ICM Registry, the company behind .xxx and the soon-to-be-released .porn and .adult domain names, announced today a modified domain name matching program for .xxx domain name owners. Previously, the company planned to reserve any domain names registered in .xxx in its new top level domain names so they could be registered by the .xxx owner. However, ICANN would not allow ICM ... read more ...
Wed 30th July 2014
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.XXX value some-more with .Sex in a bag? - It’s a mess in both cases, simply for creating an environment where domain owners are either given the chance to pay for the alternates, or feel cheated if they don’t. It’s a passive aggressive version of extortion. Even with just 4 similar TLDs, they are essentially saying to a buyer “We’re nice to you, so we’ll let you decide if you are going to pay us 4x the price or let us confuse your visitors by letting your competition get almost the same name” If ICM created 6 ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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Two .xxx domain names sell for $750,000 - ICM Registry sells two more domain names to previous premium domain customer. Premium .xxx domain names continue to sell for top dollar. .XXX domain registry ICM Registry announced today that Really Useful has acquired Tube.xxx for $500,000 and Tubes.xxx for $250,000. Really Useful is the same company that acquired four .xxx domain names for $600,000 back in October. ICM’s press release quotes Really Useful’s “JT” comparing his success on .xxx sites compared ... read more ...
Tue 15th October 2013
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Four .xxx domain names sell for $600,000 - Registry sells four more premium adult domain names. ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain name, announced today that it sold four premium .xxx domain names for $600,000. Adult entertainment company Really Useful Limited bought Mature.xxx, Bdsm.xxx, Publicsex.xxx, and Teen.xxx. Teen.xxx was the highest priced domain name at $400,000. The Chairman of Really Useful, known only as “JT”, said he has found his .xxx domain names to outperform .com ... read more ...
Wed 1st May 2013
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Sex-settlement: Manwin and ICM Registry come to terms - Deal settles antitrust lawsuit and countersuit between adult site operator and .xxx domain registry. .XXX domain name registry ICM Registry and adult site operator Manwin have settled their legal battle, the companies announced today. As part of the deal, ICM will offer significantly discounted .xxx domain registrations in May and will offer similar promotions in the future. The wholesale cost for .xxx domains will be $7.85 in May, the same price as .com. Registrars ... read more ...
Thu 1st November 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
“Free” .xxx domains with PornWords promotional credit - .xxx registry giving advertising credit to each registrant. ICM Registry announced this morning that it is offering a $75 advertising credit to existing .xxx domain owners and anyone who registers a domain by January 31. The advertising credit can be used toward ads on the company’s search.xxx site. I’ll call the search.xxx advertising program PornWords, because it’s basically like Google Adwords for adult entertainment sites. (Granted, they won’t call it ... read more ...
Wed 24th October 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain sale roundup: Bankruptcy auction, .xxx, GreatDomains, and SnapNames - Some interesting domain offerings and auctions are on tap over the next 30 days. I’ve received a number of recent announcements regarding domains sales and auctions, and some of them are rather interesting. First, there’s a bankruptcy auction for two portfolios of domain names. One is of 3,000 premium domain names and the other a portfolio of 150,000 domains. There is significant traffic in this portfolio. The auction is result of a long and intriguing battle. ... read more ...
Tue 2nd October 2012
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.XXX registry ups ante in online porn corner fight - ICM Registry files counterclaims against online adult entertainment giant. Is it possible to have a monopoly on online porn? That’s part of the argument in a legal fight between porn giant Manwin and .xxx registry ICM registry. Last week ICM Registry filed counterclaims (pdf) against Manwin in response to Manwin’s antitrust lawsuit over .xxx. It’s seeking treble damages on at least $40 million in damages. ICM claims that Manwin grew to dominance with its free ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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People like porn: search.xxx gets 500k searches in a day - New search engine for sites on .xxx domains get lots of traffic within first 24 hours. Yesterday at about this time ICM Registry switched on its new .xxx search engine, search.xxx. Now, about 24 hours later, the company says it has already served 500,000 searches to 100,000 unique visitors. The site was certainly helped by lots of media coverage, but this is an impressive number any way you look at it. Search.xxx has indexed more than 21 million pages of content ... read more ...
Thu 7th June 2012
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.XXX adult to 137k active registrations, 220k total, and new $630k reward sale - .XXX registry about to announce details of premium sale as registration count continues to grow. The .xxx domain name now has 137,000 active registrations, ICM Registry founder Stuart Lawley told Domain Name Wire today. The latest official ICANN numbers for the domain date to the end of February with 128,736 registrations. That means the TLD is adding a few thousand active registrations a month. Although it may not seem like a huge number, that’s roughly $7 million ... read more ...
Tue 1st May 2012
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.XXX registry and many other domain companies conduct to INTA assembly subsequent week - There’s money in brand protection. 9,000 people are expected to attend the International Trademark Association (INTA) annual meeting in Washington, DC May 5-9. Some of the topics on the agenda for next week include domain names and how companies can protected their brands in an expanding top level name space. There will be a lot of domain name companies in attendance. Here are some that are exhibiting: 101domain.com DomainTools GoDaddy ICM Registry (.xxx registry) Key-Systems Marksmen ... read more ...
Mon 15th August 2011
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Free Speech Coalition Provides Template Trademark Protection Letter to Adult Sites - “The money generated should come from legitimate adult and explicit content users.” If I am a legitimate registrant, why should I have to pay a “trademark tax” to protect the interests of people who ate perfectly capable of taking care of themselves? “ICANN can create a gang of six” And who pays them? Some other group of people who should pay to protect someone else’s property rights? If you want to keep people out of your yard, do you make everyone else buy you a fence? ... read more ...
Mon 18th July 2011
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900,000 .XXX Domain Names? You Make The Call. - How many .xxx domain names will be registered in the first year? ICM Registry says it has received nearly 900,000 “expressions of interest” for its .xxx top level domain name. It has also extended the sunrise period for trademark holders, apparently due to demand. Anyone could submit an expression of interest in a .xxx domain name and some of them are for the same domain name, so no one has paid the $70+ per domain for these yet. But that will soon change. It’s ... read more ...
Fri 27th May 2011
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.XXX Is Going to Bank of Defensive Non-Registration Fee - Registry will get a windfall in initial fees to block registrations of trademarks. .XXX could set a record when it comes to defensive domain name registrations. A “defensive registration” is when a brand registers a domain name solely to keep it out of the hands of cybersquatters or competitors. When you look back at previous new TLDs you’ll find a number of large brands defensively registered their domains. But you’ll still find lots of brands that don’t ... read more ...
Tue 14th December 2010
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.XXX Domain Launches Founders Program - Companies can get premium domains if they host “meaningful content” on them. As ICANN gets closer and closer to approving the .xxx top level domain name, ICM Registry is gearing up by launching its Founders Program. Modeled after similar programs from other registries, the .XXX Founders Program allows qualified companies to get premium domain names if they agree to develop and promote them. The idea is to get actual web sites using the top level domain name to ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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.XXX Will Have Three Sunrise Periods - by Kevin Murphy Trademark holders are to get new rights if and when the porn-only .xxx domain launches. ICM Registry, which hopes to get its .xxx application approved by ICANN this week, plans to have not one but three sunrise periods when it opens up next year. The first period would allow owners of porn-related trademarks to claim their .xxx domain names and use them as normal, ICM representatives said here at ICANN’s public meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. But ... read more ...
Wed 22nd September 2010
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.XXX Comment Period Brings Out a Form Letters - This time both sides of debate make use of “form” comments. The comment period for “Revised Proposed Registry Agreement for .XXX sTLD and Due Diligence Documentation” at ICANN ends Thursday. Much like last time, there are hundreds of comments submitted through online forms that basically says the same thing. But this time .xxx backer ICM Registry has decided two can play at that game. The company has added a form to its web site at icmregistry.com/forms. This ... read more ...
Fri 10th September 2010
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ICM Registry Responds to Free Speech Coalition on .XXX - ICM responds to Free Speech Coalition. ICM Registry CEO Stuart Lawley has lashed back at Free Speech Coalition for its latest attempt to delay or kill .xxx. In a letter to ICANN Chairman of the Board Peter Dengate-Thrush, Lawley refutes many of Free Speech Coalition’s (FSC) claims. Lawley says FSC’s claims have long been addressed. He also points out that FSC does not represent the entire adult entertainment industry and is U.S. centric: …while the Free ... read more ...