So I know that a lot of people who have crappy domains or just got into the business are thinking that .xxx may be great. Finally a way to get a quality domain. I just have to get lucky and register that gem before somebody else does. Well you are totally and painfully wrong.
> All premium domains will be pre-registered by people who own the .com equivalent or another TLD
https://domains.icmregistry.com/faq.html#G
> All domains that are trademarked like "playboy" will automatically have rights to any .xxx domain
Hey but wait they can't trademark "porn" or "japan" can they? So I could get japan.xxx. That sounds sweet! Umm.. No!
> All ultra premium domains will be reserved by ICM and sold to the highest bidder or in backroom deals. See here:
https://domains.icmregistry.com/faq.html#E
"culturally significant" aka anything valuable
> .xxx will be worthless to landgrabbers. There are two possible scenarios here: .XXX becomes just another TLD like .info or .us or .bs. In which case you can spend all your time and money developing a .xxx only to see the .com version slurp your traffic on type-ins. Or .xxx becomes mandatory (highly unlikely) and all porn sites can only use that extension. In this case everyone with the .com takes the equivalent .xxx and you still have nothing.
The bottom line is that .xxx is simply a way to extort money out of the community $60 at a time. You'll buy it because you need to protect your .com but in reality you'll never use it. Also one other worst case scenarios is that .xxx isn't regulated by ICANN which means they can use sliding scale prices. They did this with .tv. $60 may be the basic price but for porn.xxx they could demand an million dollars or something obscene.