Tag Archives: .xxx

Thu 7th January 2016
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ICM Releases 2 Character Domains In .XXX - ICM Registry, the registry operator for .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX, announces the launch of 2 character domains in .XXX. The press release also came with a bold statement: “””In dollar amounts, we have likely sold more in premium names than any registry launched in recent times.””” ICM is also claiming “a growing interest from the Chinese market and a general increase in awareness of all our TLDs leave the outlook for brands, adult companies, and domain investors very strong in 2016.” ICM ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2015
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.Sex is Live - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces the launch of its general availability period for .SEX. Domain names in all of ICM Registry’s extensions are now available for public purchase. Retail prices vary by registrar but Godaddy is charging $72 for a .sex domain name. According to ntldstats.com .Sex got just over 3,800 domain registrations through Sunrise and the .XXX matching program although the registry told me that .sex had ... read more ...
Tue 6th October 2015
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.XXX, .Porn., .Adult & .Sex Start Selling Premium Domains Through Registrars + 2 Characters - ICM Registry (ICM) which operates .xxx as well as the new gTLD’s .porn, .adult and .sex announced today the launch of its tiered-pricing, premium names program for .XXX, .ADULT, .PORN and .SEX.domain names. ICM is joining a growing list of new gTLD registries who are selling the vast majority of its premium domain names through the registrar channel with premium registration and renewal prices. These names include SEO based keywords as well as two character names. ICM will continue sell some of ... read more ...
 
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.Sex Matching Program For .XXX Domain Owners is Open - ICM Registry, the company that operates .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT announced today the launch of its .SEX Domain Matching/Sunrise B program. From now until October 30th, if you own a .XXX domain name, or if you are a trademark owner that reserved a name during the .XXX Sunrise B program, you are eligible to participate in this unique opportunity to register .SEX names before they become available to the general public. This program gives most .XXX participants a priority opportunity to register domain ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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Paris Hilton; Harry Potter; Playboy; AARP Among 1st To Own a .Sex Domain Name - The new gTLD .Sex went into the first day of the Sunrise on September 1st where trademark holders registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse can register .Sex domain names. Over 700 .Sex domain names have been registered. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Time Warner and Marriott seemed to register the most .Sex domains to date. With some of the trademarks there are some interesting .sex domains, including Office.sex, JustEat.Sex, Swift.sex; Priceless.Sex; Safari.sex Then there is MTV.sex, which the Network ... 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 ...
 
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.SEX is Now Available: .XXX, .Porn & .Sex Premiums Go Tiered-Pricing on Registrars - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT domain names announced that the new gTLD .SEX opened up yesterday for Trademark holders. .SEX launched on September 1, with three distinct phases. The first phase is the TMCH Sunrise phase for trademark owners (Sept 1-Oct 1). The next is a combined Sunrise B/Domain Matching phase for existing .XXX participants (Oct 5-Oct. 30); and the final phase is general availability (Nov 4th). Names in each phase will be available on a first-come, ... read more ...
Fri 5th June 2015
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.Porn Ends Its 1st Day Of With 10,038 Domain Registrations; .Adult 8,277 - According to the ICM Registry as of midnight EST, the first day of general availability (GA) the number of registered .porn domain names totaled 10,038. This number includes all domain name registered in Sunrise by trademark holders which numbered around 4,000 and the number of .porn domain names registered in the matching program for .XXX domain holders which was around 3,500 so basically .porn got over 2,500 registrations on the first day of availability. As far as .adult the first day of general ... read more ...
Tue 2nd June 2015
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ICM Says After .XXX Matching .Porn Has 7,500 Registrations; .Adult 7K & Sells A $500K .Porn Domain - The numbers are now in for the number of .porn and .adult domain names registered during the .XXX matching program Under the matching .XXX program the owners of a .XXX domain has the right register the matching .porn and .adult domains before general availability. Including to the ICM registry the operator of .XXX, .Porn and .Adult registries, including domain name registered in Sunrise, .porn now has almost 7,500 registered domain names and .adult has almost 7,000 The actually number of domain names ... read more ...
Mon 11th May 2015
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.Porn and .Adult Domain Matching Program For .XXX Owners Opens For Business - ICM Registry, LLC, the company that operates the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX TLDs, announces its Domain Matching Program for .XXX domain name owners is now open for business. “The .PORN and .ADULT Domain Matching Program gives most .XXX domain holders a priority opportunity to register directly matching names in .PORN and .ADULT. ICM Registry has reduced its registration fees for these names and some participating registrars are offering the names for as low as $12.99. ICM has created an easy ... read more ...
Sun 3rd May 2015
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Beyonce; Britney Spears, Blake Shelton; Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez All Register Their .Porn Domain - It looks like Taylor Swift was not by far the only celebrity to register a .Porn new gTLD domain name extension in the recently concluded Sunrise period. Lots of the biggest names in the music business joined Taylor Swift in registering their .porn domain including;  Beyonce, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus, Cher,  Britney Spears,  Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley, Faith Hill, Ed Sheeran, Sheryl Crow,  James Blunt, The Band Perry, The Beach Boys. Jennifer Lopez registered ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2015
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ICM Just Made $1.2 Million On Sunrise Registrations For A $370K Investment - The ICM registry,  which is the operator of .XXX, announced a short time ago that their two new extensions .porn and .adult each got around 4,000 registrations in the Sunrise Period which was opened to trademark holders. The wholesale cost for each sunrise registration was just $62,  which is quite a bargain considering that the wholesale cost of a .sucks registration is around $2K + for any domain they deemed as “premium” going up to $185K wholesale for a domain like ICANN.sucks Stuart Lawley ... read more ...
 
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Record Breaking: .Porn and .Adult Gets Around 4K Sunrise Registrations Each: 10X+ More Than Any Average - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, and .ADULT top-level domains (TLDs), announces the close of its .PORN and .ADULT Sunrise periods today with record setting numbers for new gTLD’s The Sunrise periods, which allows  trademark owners the first opportunity to secure names in .PORN and .ADULT, resulted in around 4,000 domain name registrations per TLD which is a record for any new gTLD by many times over. According to ICM, the best previous gTLD launches garnered around 750 ... read more ...
Tue 7th April 2015
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EnCirca announces $39 Price For Matching .XXX, .Porn & .Adult Domains - The domain registrar EnCirca just published a press release with a very catchy title; “Here Comes More X-Rated Domains” EnCirca announced during the month of April, they are offering a $39 package covering one name in all three adult-related extensions: .XXX, .Porn and .Adult. This works out to be $13 per domain name in each extension. Considering they are currently selling stand alone .XXX domain registrations for $99 a year, that is quite a deal. The policies for .Porn and .Adult will be ... read more ...
Sun 22nd March 2015
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Taylor Swift Registers TaylorSwift.porn But May Have Missed TaylorSwiftPorn.com - There are at least 50 stories in non-domain publications about Taylor Swift registering two new gTLD domain names TaylorSwift.Porn and TaylorSwift.adult yesterday in the Sunrise period. However another domain name was registered yesterday which didn’t make any headlines, TaylorSwiftPorn.com. The domain name was registered yesterday under privacy at Godaddy.com The domain name TaylorSwiftAdult.com remains unregistered today which leads me to believe it was not the Ms. Swift who registered the domain. It ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2015
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.Porn & .Adult new gTLD Sunrise Period Opened Today: Live Registrations Set For Jun 4th - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) announces today .PORN and .ADULT are now available for the next thirty days to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH). Domain Names are available on a first come, first serve basis to those with validated marks in the TMCH. During this period the cost of registrations will be standard registration fees, and there will be no additional sunrise application fees; moreover, ICM Registry and the ... read more ...
Sat 10th January 2015
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The First Director of .IFFOR, Set Up By .XXX Registry; Clyde Beattie Resigns & The Money Went? - Clyde Beattie, who was one of the founders of the non-profit company set up by ICM the operator of the .XXX extension, IFFOR, (The International Foundation for Online Responsibility) which was set up as “a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing policies for Top Level Domains that maximize benefit to global Internet users, domain holders and domain registry operators.”   has left the association as of December 31, 2014. When .XXX was approved by ICANN, $10 of every active (but not ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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Stuart Lawley Clarifies .XXX Registrant Rights in a Upcoming Adult New gTLDs - Stuart Lawley from ICM Registry (.XXX) left a comment about .XXX registrant rights in the new adult gtlds, this is worthy of being its own post. I know many have been confused with what they get as a .XXX registrant when the new .porn, .adult and .sex new gtlds are available. Stuart explains . Our original grandfathering plan was to release the new extensions with priority registration for the underlying matching .XXX owner who could at that point register the new names (and of course pay the registration ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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.XXX Registry Announces .Porn & .Adult Domain Matching Program Starts On Apr 15th - ICM registry which operates the .XXX registry, announced today that the Sunrise period for .PORN and .ADULT will be made available for a thirty day (30) period to trademark holders who are registered in the Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH), as required under ICANN’s Rights Protection Mechanism starting March 1, 2015 After Sunrise has closed, the next phase of the .PORN and .ADULT launch will be a thirty (30) day Limited Registration Period, referred to as the Domain Matching Program. The Domain ... 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 ...
Wed 2nd July 2014
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Top 5 Domain Name Wire stories from June - Moniker “wins” three spots on June’s top stories list. Is there no such thing as bad press? That phrase probably went out the window last month for Moniker. It took three of the month’s top five spots on Domain Name Wire for highest-trafficked stories. The stories also combined for over 350 comments. It was not good news. Here’s the complete top five. 1. The new Moniker: Love it or Hate it? – It’s definitely the latter. 2. Moniker CEO Bonnie Wittenburg ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Google Basically Shutting Down Adwords On Adult Starting Later This Month - Xbiz.com is reporting that Google has sent out letters to adult content marketers warning that they are greatly limiting their ability to advertise on Google AdWords. Starting later this month they are basically shutting down Adwords advertising for adult sites. “Beginning in the coming weeks, we’ll no longer accept ads that promote graphic depictions of sexual acts including, but not limited to, hardcore pornography; graphic sexual acts including sex acts such as masturbation; genital, anal, ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2014
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Sex.xxx domain name sells as partial of $5 million deal - Multi-year deal for forty .xxx domains valued at $5 million. The domain name Sex.xxx has been sold as part of a $5 million deal between ICM Registry and Barron Innovations. The two parties pegged the price of Sex.xxx itself at a whopping $3 million. The $5 million deal includes 40 .xxx domain names including cam.xxx, phone.xxx and black.xxx. Each of these three examples were valued at six figures. A press release about the deal describes it as a “multi-year deal,” ... read more ...
Wed 2nd April 2014
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Stuart Lawley Chats About ICANN & The New gTLD’s On Cavuto Fox Business Show - Stuart Lawley the CEO of the ICM Registry, which operates the .XXX top level domain name extension and an applicant for .sex, .porn and .adult was interviewed by Cavuto, on Fox Business News, in a segment which lasted over five minutes. My favorite quote from the Story from Lawley on new gTLD’s in response to Cavuto’s question won’t the new gTLD’s be confusing to users: “There will be confusion, but in 3-5 years from now people will look at the internet very different and people will look ... read more ...
Sun 26th January 2014
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Has Frank Schilling been a impulse behind one company’s XXX spending debauch ? - Sometimes there is a lot of information that is provided in a long comment thread that goes unnoticed, many may not keep up with string of comments and some miss them entitrely. It was big news this week that Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx sold for $750,000. The buyer of those names Really Useful out of Turks and Caicos is owned by JT who was one of the founders of You Porn. Really Useful launched the first ever .xxx domain Casting.xxx. That was covered in several non adult publications such as The Register. JT ... read more ...