Posted tonight at Domaining.com is this piece about .sx being in the mill -- See
http://www.thedomains.com/2011/03/16...ult-extension/
I've emailed the below just now to Diane Duke and others.
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.SX To Compete With .XXX As THE Adult Extension?
2011 March 16
by MHB
.Domainincite.com reported today that OpenRegistry.com won the contract to operate the back end services for the .SX registry, the cc-TLD newly assigned to Sint Maarten (the Dutch Side).
According to OpenRegistry.com, the plan for the extension may well be to compete with the the proposed .XXX extension in the adult space.
“We will be priced well below the cost of the proposed .XXX registry” I was told by the head of OpenRegistry.com.
As a ccTLD, the .SX extension will not be subject to ICANN regulation like .XXX will be.
Also while .XXX is still awaiting ICANN approval, OpenRegistry tells me that they plan to have the .SX registry up and running by as soon as July well ahead of .XXX, even if they get approved on Friday’s ICANN meeting.
I know one of the major objections of the Free Speech Collation against .XXX is that it would “grant a virtual monopoly in the domain space to ICM” the applicant for the .XXX extension.
So what do you think?
Can the .SX extension compete with .xxx if the price is substantially lower?
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