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Originally Posted by HandballJim
I don't think money is the factor here, because .XXX is only going to be good for the adult market. With the other extensions you have an unlimited market. Plus domains are cheap to register at the moment.
I feel we have too many extensions at the moment and the .com has been watered down a lot. Also nowadays you need to spend a lot of money for no reason due to the other extensions to protect your trademark. I think all these .biz and .info, etc. are worthless, not sure about you guys...but I never typed in a .biz or .info or a .us.  |
its most likely going to happen eventually. ICAAN has their own criteria however.. i.e. "substantial support in the related community" etc which he will never prove. but then again, he might given the fact that this industry is full of anti social retards who think its their god given right to do anything they want and no one can stop them and are very much like herding cats if there was intent to prove otherwise.
this industry, being as backwards as it is, turned this into an "oh my god, the government is going to rope off the internet" but .xxx is nothing but a tld and someone is applying to ICAAN for the rights to be the one who owns it. many many many new tlds have came into existence since .xxx was proposed.
ICAAN has made significant changes to how TLD's would come into existence and opened the flood gates to anyone who has the money to apply. it one of those issues that made it painfully clear how fucked up and backwards they are, how poorly reasoned their decisions are etc.
.xxx will eventually make it most likely. its just going to be another tld like .eco or whatever. it has ZERO connection to the notion of an internet "red light district" as has been the fear/concern. its about money. he will get to set the registration fee and make that profit just as Verisign makes 7.00+ from each .com registered and 3.00+ for each .net. He will probably want 50.00+ for each registration knowing that 1000's will still go for it.