Originally Posted by Nathan

Roald, that fabien not me, in case you thought it was...

In case you do want my opinion, I hate .xxx! It's a money grab and will not help the industry. Who the backers of it are shows this clearly in my opinion. All the big domainers in adult are in bed with them.

The prices will be outrageous and completely unjustified! The argument that the domain will easily make you 60 usd more than a .com just because of what it offers is first of all of course irrelevant because .com gives you so many things .xxx does not, but also is a bad way of looking at it. Investing in .com real-estate is 10% as expensive. Will .xxx ever benefit me 10 times over a .com? Of course not.

My concern is also really not that owning a few .xxx domains is good or not. Its simply about our trademarks and brands and their protection. I do not like extorshion and the way icm is setting this up is just that in my opinion. Sadly in business this seems more or less legal. If icm would let us bulk register domains for a LOW few (like 100usd for all of them, or 5usd or so for single ones -- one time fees) to BLOCK them, including the standard typos, I would be all fine with this, but obviously they won't want to since this is #1 money makerfor them.