Tag Archives: .xxx

Fri 26th August 2011
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.XXX Invades Times Square As iFriends.XXX Billboard Goes Up For A Day -                                                                 The ICM Registry in conjunction with the owner of the new site iFriends.XXX, put this billboard up in Times Square on Thursday for one day. The billboard was across the street from the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square. Many people thought that .XXX ads would not be accepted by mainstream media outlets but ICM seems determined to get .XXX into mainstream media and I think they put it up for a day just to ... read more ...
Sun 21st August 2011
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Quick Poll: Will You Protect Your Site or Brand From .XXX? - There have been hundreds of stories in the past few weeks talking about whether brands should protect their domain in the .XXX TLD. Basically there are two protections possibly available to TM Holders and Site owners, a blocking feature that will make sure your .XXX domain does not resolve for the next 10 years for a one time fee of a few hundreds or getting your .XXX domain and choosing whether to have it resolve now or in the future by paying the annual registration fee. No doubt with registrations ... read more ...
Mon 15th August 2011
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The Free Speach Coalition Urges “Trademark Holders to Protect Brands from .XXX With Letter of Notice” - I just received this from  Diane Duke of the FreeSpeechCoalition.com which “Urges Adult Trademark Holders to Protect Brands from .XXX with Letter of Notice for ICM Registry”:  A letter template has been created by Free Speech Coalition (FSC) for adult online business owners to send to ICM Registry, to demand that their trademarks be protected from sale on .XXX domains to third parties. The “letter of notice” informs ICM Registry – operators of the .XXX domain – that the sender will ... read more ...
 
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Masala.xxx Didn’t Get a Memo About India and .XXX Domain Names - Users might have a hard time reaching Indian .xxx site. I was caught a bit off guard when reading Elliot’s story today about Masala.xxx launching. This is apparently an adult site aimed at India. Although I don’t believe anything is done yet, India is high up on list of countries that will try to block .xxx domain names from resolving. It seems odd that you’d launch a .xxx site aimed squarely and India in the face of it being hard for your target visitors to ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
Sun 14th August 2011
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10 Days After Launch, The 1st .XXX Site, Casting.XXX Has As Much Traffic As The $13 Million Dollar Domain Sex.com - It was just 10 days ago that the 1st .XXX site was launched, Casting.XXX and it already has as much traffic as Sex.com which was purchase for $13 Million dollars late last year. According to Alexa.com Casting.XXX over the last 7 days is in a virtual tie for traffic with Sex.com (graph is below) Yup I know its hard to believe. It was hard for me to believe. So I reached out to the owner of Casting.XXX,  The Really Useful Ltd, yesterday for more info and they sent a ton of information including the ... read more ...
Thu 11th August 2011
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Godaddy Sets Prices For .XXX Domain Names - Godaddy.com the world’s largest registrar has announced it pricing for the .XXX Sunrise period, Land Rush and General Availability for .XXX domain names. Pricing for .XXX is as follows: Sunrise AT — $209.99 for the non-refundablе application feе and first year of domain name registration (renewals are $99.99 per year) Sunrise AD — $209.99 for the non-refundablе application feе and first year of domain name registration (renewals are $99.99 per year) Sunrise B — $199.99 for the one-timе, ... read more ...
Mon 8th August 2011
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ICM Announces Close Of Founders Program For .XXX: Several Domains Sold “Well Into The Six Figures” - ICM Registry, the company behind the .XXX top level domain (TLD) successfully concluded its Founders program, which had been running for the last 9 months.  This unique program was designed for early adopters from within the adult industry to secure and develop key .XXX domain names as showcase sites ahead of the official launch of .XXX on September 7, 2011. “35 companies from the adult industry from around the world were accepted into the Founders program, claiming approximately 1,500 .XXX domain ... read more ...
Sat 6th August 2011
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.XXX To Be The Diamond Overall Sponsor of TRAFFIC - According to a Press Release out tonight the ICM Registry, the company who is running the .XXX TLD today announced it had signed to be the Diamond Overall Sponsor of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2011, to be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida from October 16 to October 19, 2011. “The event will be the first opportunity for ICM to unveil its long-term plans for the .xxx TLD to the Domainer community since approval back in March earlier this year. “The event will enable us to promote ... read more ...
Thu 4th August 2011
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EasySpace: 80% Of All .XXX Pre-Registrations So Far Are Defensive - Easyspace, one of registrar’s taking pre-reservations for .XXX domains said today that 8 out 10 businesses pre-registering their interest in the new .XXX domain name extension are not part of the adult industry. “Out of the hundreds of businesses that have rushed to pre-register with Easyspace ahead of the opening of the Sunrise phase for .XXX domains on 7 September 2011, only 20% of them are from the adult industry” said Sarah Haran, managing director of Easyspace. Ms. Haran went on to say: “As ... read more ...
Wed 20th July 2011
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ICM Registry Answers Hustler & Trademark Holders: You Can’t Sue Us - The ICM Registry published a white paper today  entitled .XXX Domains and Trademark Issues. The paper seems to answer  threats like the one that came from Hustler last week that seemed to indicate that trademark holders are somehow going to try to hold the ICM Registry liable for trademark infringement. Last week Hustler President Michael Klein said: The ICM registry is “prohibited from registering or selling to a third party any .XXX domain names that contain the famous Hustler trademark or ... read more ...
 
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CEO Of ICM Stuart Lawley Spends 6 Minutes+ Chatting On CNN - Stuart Lawley CEO of the ICM Registry, Spent 6 minutes on CNN this morning chatting about the .XXX extension and the new gTLD program It was quite a good interview for Stuart but not so much for Pauline Chiou who conducted the interview who kept confusing the new gTLD program with .XXX leading her to ask why each .XXX domain is gojng to be so expensive at $185,000 per domain. Well Stuart quite patiently explained to Ms. Chiou the difference between a domain registration and applying to run and extension. One ... 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 ...
Sun 17th July 2011
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ICM Registry: 900,000 Expressions of Interest For A .XXX Domain Name - According to a Press Release that the  ICM Registry, the company behind .XXX, will announce tomorrow, they have received nearly 900,000 expressions of interest for .XXX domain names during its pre-reservation process. I reached out to the ICM registry and asked how many of the 900K expressions of interests represented unique  domains. Stuart Lawley wrote back to tell me the 900,000 expressions of interest were for about 650,000 unique domain names. At that level 650,000 domain names would net over ... read more ...
Wed 13th July 2011
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Russell King Out as Chief Operating Officer of ICM (.XXX Registry Operator) - We have confirmed that Russel King who had been serving the ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX registry in the capacity of Chief Operating Officer of ICM, is no longer with the company. It seems that Mr. King was terminated by ICM shortly after the Singapore ICANN meeting which he attended on ICM’s behalf in June. Mr. King has been with ICM since 2010. We Met Mr. King at several ICANN meetings and always found him to be smart, well spoken, highly likeable guy and  we wish him the best of luck ... read more ...
 
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Hustler Comes Out Swinging Against ICM & .XXX - According to a story in Xbiz.com, Hustler has come out swinging against. XXX and anyone who plans to registering or obtaining a .XXX domain name containing one of there trademarks. In a statement sent to Xbiz.com and AVN.com, Hustler President Michael Klein said: The ICM registry is “prohibited from registering or selling to a third party any .XXX domain names that contain the famous Hustler trademark or other Hustler-related trademarks.” “It appears that the .XXX TLD will do nothing but drive ... read more ...
Wed 22nd June 2011
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.XXX Formally Announces IFFOR Board - Group to help set policy for new .xxx domain name. One of the interesting quirks about the new .xxx domain name is that it will help fund a group called International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). IFFOR will get $10 from every domain registration in order to initiate “a series of policies for responsible business practices and conduct within the .XXX online adult-entertainment community”. Today the group sent out a press release formally announcing ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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Here is The Letter The EU Sent To The US & The US Response Back ON .XXX: Hint The EU Is Not Happy - ankabooot.com just published the letter that the .EU sent to the US Commerce Department objecting to the addition of .XXX to the root and the response the US sent back to the letter. Its an interesting read: Here is the letter from the .EU:   Dear Gary, I am writing to express my concern regarding the recent decision by ICANN on 18th March in its meeting in San Francisco, to approve the proposed Internet Top Level Domain (TLD) “.XXX”. As you will be aware, the Governmental Advisory Committee ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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XBiz Poll: 35% Of Adult Entertainment Sites Plan To Buy .XXX Domains To Develop or Defensive Registrations - According to a poll taken by adult industry publication xBiz.com, 35% of “adult entertainment industry professionals plan to buy .XXX domain names, either to defensively protect their existing brands/trademarks or to develop and market new websites” “The online poll, ran from May 1 to June 1, 2011, got nearly 400 responses from adult entertainment industry business operators who are registered members of XBIZ.net, the adult entertainment industry’s top social network. XBIZ asked, “Now ... read more ...
 
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DomainMonster.com Opens Pre-Registration For .XXX Domains - Domainmonster.com just announced they are accepting pre orders for all three stages of the upcoming .XXX Domain Name launch. Their wholesale platform Domainbox.com is now also accepting pre orders following full integration for .XXX domains into its comprehensive API (Application Programming Interface). .XXX domains start from $74.99 at Domainmonster.com, where orders can be placed online for Sunrise, Landrush and the General Availability stages. Orders placed for General Availability will not be ... 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 3rd May 2011
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Kenya To Block .XXX - According to Xbiz.com,  “Kenya’s government announced today that it has rejected .XXX to operate in its country” “Communications Secretary Bitange Ndemo said Kenya would not certify the sponsored top-level domain that was recently approved by the ICANN.” “We are not going to allow .XXX in this country; it’s actually a certificate for people to watch pornography,” Ndemo said. “Some countries have that freedom but parents have the responsibility of stopping their children from ... read more ...
Sat 16th April 2011
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.XXX is Added To The Root & Is Live - 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.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 6th April 2011
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Video From Phoenix Forum On .XXX Panel Is Posted, All 2 1/2 Hours Of It - Last weekend as part of the Phoenix Forum an adult Internet industry show, a panel discussion was held about the newly approved .XXX extension. Representative from ICM Registry the company that will run the .XXX registry, were on the panel as well as adult industry representatives, lawyers and others. Xbiz.com just posted the 2 1/2 hour video of the session and the discussion that took place which was often combative. The contract with ICANN was signed the day before the session. To summarize the ... read more ...
Mon 4th April 2011
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Why There May Never Be A 3D.XXX or 69.XXX; UnitedStates.xxx or France.XXX & That’s Just For Starters - According to the contract that ICANN signed with the the ICM registry this week to operate the .XXX registry (pdf) there may never be any 2 character .XXX domain names. Exhibit 6 of the Agreement, (found on page 59 of the pdf)  all 2 character .XXX domains shall be reserved until such time as the registry reaches an agreement with “the government and country code manager” or the ISO to release such domains. Some of the best possible .XXX domains would be 2 character domains; 3D.XXX and 69.XXX, ... read more ...